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语言
Language
A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.
标准的国际语言不仅要简单、规范、有逻辑，而且要丰富、有创造性。
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
在我们所有的大众传播发明中，图片仍然是最普遍理解的语言。
Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.
永远不要低估了解他人语言的价值。它可以比剑和箭强大得多。
After all, every use of language without exception has some, if not all, of the characteristic features of lies.
毕竟，每一种语言的使用无一例外地都有一些(如果不是全部的话)谎言的特征。
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
语言是我们的生命。我们是人类，因为我们使用语言。所以我认为当我们使用更少的语言时，我们就更不像人类了。
Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.
语言就像喝自己在静水中的倒影。我们只能从它身上得到我们当时的样子。
I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.
我一直怀疑语言在表达错综复杂的真理的能力上是相当有限的。
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
每个人，任其自行其是，都会对语言中发生的事情形成一种与事实相去甚远的看法。
Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
自希腊人以来，我们就沉醉于语言之中!我们用语言做了一个笼子，把我们的上帝塞了进去!
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
男人唯一能说得完美的语言是他们在婴儿时期学到的，那时没有人能教他们任何东西!
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
你知道为什么语言会在我的作品中表现出来吗?因为我知道注意力持续时间短。
Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.
然而，颠覆性的语言必须不断被重新发明，因为它不断被有权势的人所吸收。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
自由地看，英语是每一种方言、种族和时间范围的增加和发展，是所有语言的自由和紧凑的组成。
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。
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
一个作家边写边写，就像他犯了相反的错误一样，应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果，同时也使他的话难以理解。
I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
我不懂语法规则……如果你试图说服人们做某事，或者买东西，在我看来，你应该使用他们的语言，他们每天使用的语言，他们思考的语言。我们尽量用方言写作。
A different language is a different vision of life.
不同的语言是不同的生活愿景。
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
我语言的极限就是我思想的极限。我所知道的就是我的语言。