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语言
Language
Language is a social art.
语言是一门社会艺术。
Language is fossil Poetry.
语言是僵化的诗歌。
My first language is Gaelic.
我的第一语言是盖尔语。
French was my first language.
法语是我的第一语言。
Hands have their own language.
手有自己的语言。
Language is memory and metaphor.
语言是记忆和隐喻。
Smiles are the language of love.
微笑是爱的语言。
Language is the dress of thought.
语言是思想的外衣。
Metaphor is embodied in language.
隐喻体现在语言中。
Language is the light of the mind.
语言是心灵之光。
Speech happens to not be his language.
语言碰巧不是他的语言。
The eyes have one language everywhere.
眼睛到处都有一种语言。
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The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
最重要的事情往往是最难说出口的。它们是你感到羞耻的东西，因为语言会减少你的感觉——当你脑海中永恒的东西被拿出来的时候，它们只会缩小到活生生的大小。
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
语言是有生命的东西。我们能感觉到它的变化。它的一部分会变老:它们会脱落并被遗忘。新碎片发芽，蔓延到叶子，成为大树枝，增殖。
War is what happens when language fails.
当语言失效时，战争就会发生。
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
人类学家是连接诗人和科学家的纽带;尽管他们在原始民族中的野外工作常常使他们忘记了科学的语言。
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
动物的眼睛有能力说一种伟大的语言。
It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.
我们倾向于把每一个问题都当作是双方之间的斗争来处理。我们在标题中看到它总是使用战争的隐喻。这是一种普遍的敌意和争论的气氛，已经占据了我们的公共话语。