A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

  • -- Edward Sapir 爱德华·萨皮尔

然而,对法语中反身用法的逻辑分析表明,这种简单是一种幻觉,它非但没有帮助外国人,反而更有意地让外国人感到烦恼。

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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

归根到底,个人要对自己的生活负责,对“发现自己”负责。如果他坚持把自己的责任转移给别人,他就不能发现自己存在的意义。

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

简单是最终的成就。当一个人演奏了大量的音符和更多的音符后,简单就成为了艺术的最高奖赏。

If i find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that i was made for another world.

如果我发现自己的欲望是这个世界上任何东西都无法满足的,那么唯一合乎逻辑的解释就是我是为另一个世界而生的。

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

一张桌子,一把椅子,一碗水果和一把小提琴;一个人想要快乐还需要什么?

Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.

碰壁后,下一步合乎逻辑的做法是不要用头撞墙。

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

真理要经过太多的分析。