Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

  • -- John Crowe Ransom 约翰·克劳·兰色姆

在词的意义和它们的声音之间通常没有发现任何关系,除了偶然的关系;因此,对于神秘主义者来说,当有意义的词语也可以构成一个统一的客观的重音和韵律结构时,这是不可思议的。

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Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.

你是在暗示我该把它扔掉吗?我可以不带口音;我只需要专注于我所说的。我必须慢慢地说。

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

我是那种没人认为能成功的人。我的波士顿口音很滑稽。我发不出R的音。我不是个美人。