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语言
Language
I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.
我一直在观察那些走在积极和消极道路上的公司,我开始使用体育的语言,连胜和连胜。
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
我们不只是借用词语;有时,英语在小巷里追逐其他语言,把它们打得不省力气,搜刮口袋里的新词汇。
Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
语言无法描述随后的情景;喊声、咒骂声、疯狂的手势、奚落声、答话声和小小的斗殴声;因此,我不打算这样做。
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。
There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.
有无限的光影和颜色的阴影…这是一种非常微妙的语言。弄清楚如何说那种语言是一项终生的工作。
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
未来的作者是一个发现语言的人,对语言资源的探索和运用,将为他赢得胜利。
I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.
在我十几岁的时候,我参加了一些手语课程,因为有人告诉我,我很早就会完全失聪。但我从来就不想学。
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。
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
对我来说,具体的诗歌是一种特殊的使用语言的方式,产生于一种特殊的感觉,我无法控制这种感觉是否存在于我的内心。
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。
Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.
当然,另一种更严肃的方式是,人们在诗歌和语言中发现了一些适合自己的特质,并希望复制。
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
诗歌是一种普遍的语言,它使人的心灵与自然和自身融为一体。一个轻视诗歌的人,不可能对自己或其他任何东西有太多的尊重。
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It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
我相信,我们之所以会发展语言,是因为我们内心深处有一种抱怨的需求。
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。
English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning.
英语是一门美丽的语言,一门非常精确的语言,有上百万个单词可供选择,可以准确地表达你的意思。
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。
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
在我的世界里,历史可以归结为语言和艺术。没有人太在意曾经打过什么仗,谁赢了谁输了——除非有一幅画、一出戏、一首歌或一首诗讲述了这个事件。
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。