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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So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

此外,法律对私有财产的重视是如此之高,以致于它不会批准哪怕是最轻微的侵犯;不,甚至不是为了整个社区的共同利益。

The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

我和新一代艺术家的不同之处在于,我和建筑师、音乐创作人有着共同的历史。我知道这音乐是从哪儿来的。

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

内战吗?这是什么意思?有外国战争吗?不是每一场战争都是人与弟兄之间的战争吗?

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

自然规律的简单性来自于我们用来表达它们的语言的复杂性。

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

你需要一个完整的社区来抚养一个孩子。我一个人养大了两个孩子。

Hands have their own language.

手有自己的语言。