In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

  • -- Sydney Smith 史密斯

写作时,一般来说,把你写的每一个字都用笔写一遍;你不知道它会给你的风格带来多大的活力。

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Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

语言学必须认识到在语言中普遍存在的规律,并以严格理性的方式,将普遍现象与局限于语言某一分支的现象区分开来。

That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.

这是做生意的规矩。没有舌头。你无法真正进入其中,否则会很奇怪。我觉得那个场景让他的女朋友嫉妒了。有问题。

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

一般的陈述忽略了我们真正想知道的东西。有些马跑得比其他马快。

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

艺术在社会中的作用因艺术家而异。