When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

  • -- Christopher Ricks 里克斯

当一种语言在当下创造出一个共同体时,它只能通过一个介于现在和过去之间的共同体来实现。

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Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

多年前,我认识到我与所有生物都有亲缘关系,我下定决心,我不比地球上最卑贱的人强一点点。我当时说过,现在也说过,只要有下层阶级,我就在其中;只要有犯罪的成分,我也有;只要有一个灵魂在监狱里,我就没有自由。

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

当你和某人发生冲突时,有一个因素可以决定是破坏你们的关系还是加深你们的关系。这个因素就是态度。

Well, ever since I was little, I knew that singing was what I wanted to do, and then I got into, you know, doing drama club and community theater.

嗯,从我很小的时候,我就知道唱歌是我想做的,然后我进入了,你知道,戏剧俱乐部和社区剧院。

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

我们都有一个从摇篮到坟墓的旅程,在这期间,你做了什么?以后一定会有事情的。

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

口语形式实际上是对音乐语言中可能性的一种非常克制的表达。

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

如果你想知道什么对一种文化来说是重要的,那就学习他们的语言。