Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

  • -- Willard Van Orman Quine 威拉德·冯·奥曼·蒯因

不加批判的语义学是博物馆的神话,在这个神话中,展品是意义,文字是标签。切换语言就是改变标签。

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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

史诗以某种伟大的象征态度表现生活。它不能严格地说象征着生命本身,但总是某种生活方式。

It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better

认为有时创造性的分歧并不一定会产生更好的结果,这是一个神话

Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change

生活就像画家的调色板,当你把所有的事情都安排好了,颜色就变了

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

换句话说,我将屈服于一个我认为可以毁灭我们的相同的神话。

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

人们认为糖盆没有面相,没有灵魂。但它每天都在变化。