A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
单词
Words
The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
艺术家处理无法用语言表达的东西。以小说为媒介的艺术家是用文字来表达的。小说家用语言表达了无法用语言表达的东西。
I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
我是一个用图片和文字创作的艺术家。有时候，这些东西最终会出现在不同的网站和环境中，这些网站和环境决定了它的含义和外观。
When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.
如果你随意使用词语，不加注意和考虑，你就会丧失对自己和自己所说内容的信任。当你浪费言语时，你就削弱了自己的力量。
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
语言是为一定程度的思考而产生的，正如眼泪是为一定程度的痛苦而产生的。最不明显的东西叫不出来;最清楚的是说不出来的。
I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.
我一直很喜欢文字。我把我能拿到的书都吃光了，当我拿不到书的时候，我就看糖果包装纸和麦片和牙膏盒子上的标签。
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
操纵现实的基本工具是操纵文字。如果你能控制词语的意思，你就能控制那些必须使用词语的人。
I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.
我几乎无法用语言来描述我在演戏时所感受到的平静。我那不正常的自我实际上可以与另一个自我连接，而不是我自己，这感觉很好。
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
要用嚼环勒住你的舌头。你当在嘴唇前警戒，恐怕你口中的言语，败坏你的平安。多言生后悔，多言生平安。
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
诗歌不仅仅是一组相互关联的词语;它远不止于此，它能让我们一瞥我们对世界的看法。
Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
语言并不擅长描述复杂、奇怪的视觉事物。你可以试一试，读者的脑海中会有一些图像，但文字并不擅长这些。
A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.
我脑子里想了一百万字，说实话，我一个字也没说。我想让它静下来，慢慢炖，你知道我想把它全部浸进去——那一刻太棒了。
In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test.
换句话说，他们的智商测试做得越好，他们在实际测试中做得越差，他们在实际测试中做得越好，他们在智商测试中做得越差。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
所有这些原始的冲动都是人类行为的源泉，不容易用语言来描述。
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
不要在主题上使用太大的词。当你的意思是“非常”时，不要说“无穷大”;否则，当你想谈论一些真正无限的东西时，你就会无话可说。
Use soft words and hard arguments.
使用软语言和硬论点。
A language is a dialect with its own army and navy.
一种语言是一种拥有自己的陆军和海军的方言。
The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.
学习词汇的最后一个动机应该是给人留下深刻印象。语言是需要后天习得的，因为我们迫切需要它们——去传达，去触及，去表达我们内心的某种东西，去理解他人。
Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
词汇表是交叉的圆圈和循环。我们是由我们选择跨越或被限制的界限来定义的。