Handling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with more vigorous and varied services, by stretching and bending it.

  • -- Michel de Montaigne 蒙塔尼米歇尔

有才能的人对语言的处理和使用赋予语言价值,与其说是通过创新,不如说是通过提供更有活力和更多样化的服务,通过拉伸和弯曲语言。

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I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby, but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.

我相信作者……应该永远是最后的裁判。我一直坚持这一立场,有时看到书因此受到伤害,但至少同样经常得到帮助。这本书是作者的。

He claimed his modest share of the general foolishness of the human race.

他声称自己对人类普遍的愚蠢行为负有一定的责任。