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Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

  • -- George Steiner 斯坦纳

语言只能有意义地处理现实中一个特殊的、受限制的部分。剩下的，大概是更大的部分，是沉默。

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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

经典与浪漫:家庭争吵的私人语言，一场关于人与自然之间重点分配的死争论。

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In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

从某种意义上说，每一种表达形式都是由社会因素，尤其是自己的语言强加于人的。

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Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

实事求是。当你必须打拳的时候打拳。当你不得不踢的时候踢。

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I reject your reality and substitute my own.

我拒绝你的现实，而代之以我自己的现实。

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