Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

  • -- Robert G. Ingersoll 格索

至少在思想领域里,你是没有锁链的;你有权探索任何高度和深度;在广阔的思想空间里,没有墙,没有栅栏,没有禁地,没有神圣的角落。

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Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

语义学,即意义的研究,一直处于不发达的状态,而语音学却取得了飞速的进步,甚至在语言科学研究中占据了中心地位。

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

他们给我戴上枷锁;他们锁住了我的腰,我的腿。把我放到警车后座上,我真的晕过去了。我甚至没有——整块都不见了。

For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.

对很多人来说,每周的工资是“带回家的工资”,因为家是他们唯一能负担得起的地方。

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

没有神秘,生活将是非常枯燥的。如果一切都知道了,还剩下什么可奋斗的呢?

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

我是一名战士,非常坚定。我不可能不赢就退出比赛。

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

无论戴着镣铐还是戴着桂冠,自由只知道胜利。