About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

  • -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 艾兹格·迪科斯彻

关于语言的使用:用钝斧头削铅笔是不可能的。试着用十根钝斧头代替它也是徒劳的。

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English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

英语应该是我们的官方语言。阅读和说英语是成为公民的必要条件。

There was no use grieving over what might have been.

为可能发生的事而悲伤是没有用的。

I could really use a wish right now.

我现在真的需要一个愿望。

French was my first language.

法语是我的第一语言。