A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
语言
Language
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
我试图用今天的语言来表达我和世界正在经历的普遍存在危机。
Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
有时，一个词的成功超出了它的创造者的最疯狂的梦想，就像病毒被送到世界上感染普通的语言。
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
好的艺术理论必须有工作室的味道，尽管它的语言应该不同于画家和雕塑家的家常便饭。
Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
来到这个时代，就好像进入了另一个国家。学习它的语言，否则就有被忽视的风险。
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
诗性语言对散文语言的影响可以看作是一种决定性的鞭策。
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
诗歌记录的情感和情绪超出了正常的语言，只能拼凑在一起，隐喻性地暗示。
I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
我认为音乐是一种语言。如果一个音乐形式吃掉了自己的尾巴，它就会死亡。所以它需要是一个杂种，它需要被杂交。
Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed.
在威尔士恢复威尔士语无异于一场革命。只有通过革命手段，我们才能成功。
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
我们的记忆片段在被想象成文字之前没有任何连贯性。时间是语言、语法和时态的属性。
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
语言是一只裂开的水壶，我们在上面敲出曲调，让熊跟着跳舞，而我们却时时刻刻想让星星怜悯。
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
散文的语言和电影的语言非常不同，所以电影必须成功地翻译书中的内容。
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education -- sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
英语的用法有时不仅仅是品味、判断和教育——有时纯粹是运气，就像过马路一样。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.
你将要听到的语言……是令人不安的。
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。
Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
沉默是上帝的语言，其他一切都是拙劣的翻译。
I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.
我很快就学会了英语，我的第六语言。
Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
善良是一种聋子能听见、瞎子能看见的语言。