A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
语言
Language
I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.
我很高兴你能在科技和时尚的两个世界中找到语言，因为我不认为很多设计师能做到这一点。
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
奇怪的是，它似乎只是在描述一种语言模式，并不意味着它所说的，一个人实际上可以说一个人的意思。
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
因为它将传统等同于偏见，左派发现自己越来越无法用普通人的共同语言与他们交谈。
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
关于语言的使用:用钝斧头削铅笔是不可能的。试着用十根钝斧头代替它也是徒劳的。
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
语言只能有意义地处理现实中一个特殊的、受限制的部分。剩下的，大概是更大的部分，是沉默。
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
伟大的艺术讲的是每一个聪明人都能理解的语言。今天自称现代主义者的人说的是另一种语言。
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
我们的所见所闻和其他方面的经历很大程度上和我们一样，因为我们社区的语言习惯倾向于做出某些解释的选择。
Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.
只有当语言被用作一种工具，被那些有勇气和诚实去感知和感受它的人所使用时，语言才能达到灵魂的境界。
Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
大多数人都是无知的，绘画的语言是什么。你知道，他们很无知。让他们意识到这一点很难，但时间会教会他们。
By studying the principles of symbolism we can learn not to be unconsciously influenced by language, and in this way can escape a host of erroneous notions.
通过学习象征主义的原则，我们可以学会不受语言的无意识影响，这样可以避免许多错误的观念。
Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
语言……创造了“孤独”这个词来表达孤独的痛苦。它创造了“孤独”这个词来表达独处的荣耀。
Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.
说话就像弹琴;把双手放在琴弦上以停止琴弦的振动，与拨弄琴弦以奏出音乐一样重要。
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A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
温暖的微笑是善良的通用语言。
As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.
由于语言的基本规则必须不断地练习，因此永远不会固定，所以针对不同颜色效果的练习永远不会结束。新的和不同的病例将被发现一次又一次。
Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
爱只有“从内心”才能理解，就像一种语言只有说这种语言的人才能理解，就像一个世界只有生活在其中的人才能理解一样。
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
语言不仅仅是经验的报告工具，而且是经验的定义框架。
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
舞蹈是身体灵魂隐藏的语言。
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。