Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

把这个论点变成一个具体的形状,一个形象,一些强硬的短语,像一个圆圆的实心的球,他们可以看到,可以处理,可以带回家,那么这个事业就成功了一半。

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You praise the firm restraint with which they write - I'm with you, there, of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right, But where's the bloody horse?

你赞扬他们在写作上的坚定克制——我当然同意你的看法:他们用的是马嚼子和马路边石,不错,可那匹该死的马呢?

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

听我说,我的首领们!我累了。我的心是生病和悲伤。从太阳现在的位置,我将永远不再战斗。

Most arguments are instances of an inability to make it clear that we are essentially in agreement.

大多数争论都是无法表明我们基本上意见一致的实例。

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

第一个动手的人承认他的主意已经行不通了。

I quote others in order to better express my own self.

我引用别人的话是为了更好地表达我自己。

Ideas are fatal to caste.

思想对种姓制度是致命的。