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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

  • -- Booker T. Washington 布克·华盛顿

我们不只是借用词语;有时，英语在小巷里追逐其他语言，把它们打得不省力气，搜刮口袋里的新词汇。

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[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

如果你仔细想想，语言确实是一项非常了不起的发明。我脑子里有一个非常复杂，混乱，混乱的想法。我坐在这里发出咕哝的声音，希望在你的脑海中构建一个类似的混乱的，混乱的想法，与之类似。

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The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

意识决定行为，无意识决定反应;反应和行动一样重要。

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My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.

我岳母一句英语也不会说。我不讲塔吉克语。于是，我讨好地对她笑了笑，她用锐利的眼睛盯着我。

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The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

激动的语言充其量不过是生动的。你必须冷静，才能说出神谕。

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This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.

这个国家一直处于无意识状态，必须清醒过来。这是我的信念。

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I read good. I was an English major.

我读好。我是英语专业的。

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