We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

  • -- Tahar Ben Jelloun 塔哈尔·本·杰伦

我们没有具有国际地位的阿拉伯知识分子,因为我们生活在一个普遍平庸的国家。我们被吊在坑里,没有碰到底部。

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A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.

一种共同的创造需要共同的牺牲,也许支持一种建构的国际语言的最有力的论据是,它对所有民族的传统都是同样陌生的,或者显然是如此。

But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.

但当它成为一场国际性的喧嚣,职业生涯的成败取决于你是否获得奥斯卡奖时,它就失控了。