These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

  • -- Edward Sapir 爱德华·萨皮尔

英语和法语中缺乏简单性的这些例子,表面上都相反,几乎可以无限地增加,并适用于所有的民族语言。

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I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, 'Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We've got the climax coming up.' You can start to analyze it too much.

我发现童星能很好地提醒我们表演的简单性。随着年龄的增长,你有时会把事情复杂化。你可能会意识到,‘好吧,这就是情感上的场景。这是我们需要做的。高潮就要到了。你可以开始过多地分析它。

It's great to be wanted in this recruiting class. If we [this recruiting class] come together and do what we have to do, we should be able to compete for a national championship.

能成为这个招聘班的一员真是太好了。如果我们(这个招聘班)团结起来,做我们必须做的事情,我们应该能够竞争全国冠军。

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

宏伟与美丽是如此的对立,以至于你常常在增加美与减少美的同时,也在减少美。多样性与后者最为相似,简单性与前者最为相似。

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

我想学其他语言,也许是法语?我叔叔会说德语,所以可能也会说德语吧?中文似乎太难了。

I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.

我不知道这家公司是怎么被命名为国家莎士比亚公司的,因为它就像一个傻瓜雇佣了一个傻瓜。