A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
语言
Language
I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.
我一直怀疑，对那些无话可说的人来说，正确是最后的避难所。
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
我的剧本是由长独白组成的，类似于用语言写成的散文。
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
学者就像一本用死语言写的书。并不是每个人都能读懂。
Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.
语言就像看某个地方的地图。爱是生活在那里，生存在土地上。
It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.
我的背景是科学，而且我能说科学家们的语言，这可能会有帮助。
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
语言毕竟只是符号的使用，艺术也只能通过符号来影响我们。
Among the forests Of metal the one human Sound was the lament of The poets for deciduous language.
在金属森林中，人类发出的唯一声音是诗人对落叶语言的哀歌。
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
音乐是精神的语言。它开启了生命带来和平、消除冲突的秘密。
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
人类语言似乎是一种独特的现象，在动物界没有明显的相似之处。
Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
只要学会用另一种语言思考，你就能以更好的视角看待自己的文化。
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
他们非常强调语言的明确性，以表达细微差别和显示细微差别。
If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.
如果你生命中的某个人用你对自己说话的方式对你说话，你早就离开他们了。
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Smiles are the language of love.
微笑是爱的语言。
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
你不能写教科书之外的人物，你也不能使用术语。你必须用一个六岁的孩子能听懂的语言清晰、简单、纯粹地说;然而，语言的含义和暗示，以及它的含意，都能吸引最高的智力。
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
当我阅读伟大的文学作品、伟大的戏剧、演讲或布道时，我觉得人类的心灵除了通过语言来分享情感和思想外，没有取得任何更大的成就。
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。
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
但是如果思想腐化了语言，语言也能腐化思想。
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
一个人不能居住在一个国家里;一个人居住在一种语言中。那是我们的国家，我们的祖国，而不是别的。