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演讲
Speech
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
一个人想要上升到神的平台，就需要纯净的言语、心灵、感官和慈悲的心。
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
语音不能被理解、划分、分类和解释，除非根据它们在语言中所执行的任务。
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
声音是人类的天赋;它应该被珍惜和使用，尽可能地充分表达人类的语言。无能为力与沉默相伴。
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
世界上有一半人有话可说却不能说，而另一半人无话可说却一直在说。
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
目前世界上第一次修订的国家总数是一个。你们保证了言论自由。其他国家没有。
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
说话习惯的共同性和连续性是智力缺陷的一种症状。它源于不知道别人在想什么。
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice.
我们很少后悔说得太少，却常常后悔说得太多:这是一句庸俗陈腐的格言，全世界都知道，但全世界都不实行。
Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
任何一年演讲超过六次的人注定要重复自己的演讲，不是因为他没什么可说的，而是因为他想要掌声，而老东西能得到掌声。
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
演讲要研究三点:第一，说服的方法;第二,语言;第三，适当安排演讲的各个部分。
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
上帝，大自然的全能创造者和世界的缔造者，给人类留下了深刻的印象。
The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.
鞭子一鞭，在肉上划痕。舌头一鞭，骨头折断。倒在刀下的虽多，倒在舌头下的却少。
I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.
我从来没有真正说过很多关于整个事件，这是无休止的。但他的演讲是一个非常聪明的演讲，关于父亲不是可有可无的，没有人比我更赞同这一点。
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Speech both conceals and reveals the thoughts of men.
语言既能隐藏人的思想，又能揭示人的思想。
No man would listen to you talk if he didn’t know that it was his turn next.
如果不知道下一个轮到他，没有人会听你说话。
Speech is the small change of silence.
言语是沉默的微小变化。
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
说话要得体，尽量少说话，但一定要简明扼要;因为言语的结局，不是炫耀，乃是叫人明白。
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
沉默仍然是一种不可避免的语言形式。
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
当你生气的时候说出来，你会做出你会后悔的最好的演讲。