A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
语言
Language
The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.
当然，所谓建构语言在内涵丰富性上不如民族语言，并不是对建构语言思想的批判。
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.
在诗歌语言中，符号本身具有一种独立的价值，这种声音象征成为一种实际的因素，并创造了一种与所指相辅相成的东西。
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
但人类的行为有时是一种防御，一种隐藏动机和思想的方式，因为语言可以是一种隐藏思想和阻止交流的方式。
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
我们喜欢诗歌的部分原因是它看起来很古老，它有古语言和古形式的权威，它是永恒的，它可以追溯到古代。
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。
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。
As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.
事实上，一种超越其自身范围的民族语言，很快就会失去其原有的丰富内容，其效果并不比一种建构的语言好。
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
没有丑陋的语言这种东西。今天，我听到每一种语言，仿佛它是唯一的一种;当我听到一种即将消亡的语言时，它使我不知所措，仿佛它是地球的死亡。
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
我呆呆地坐着，呆呆地望着，呆呆地望着，茫然不知所措，我在学习一门新的语言，或者更确切地说，是一门用不同方言讲的同一种语言。我坐着的那片大树林依然如此，声音可能还没有诞生。
The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.
我挖掘的东西，通常都是有灵魂成分的。一个我非常喜欢的歌手。我可能听不懂他们唱的语言，但我真的在和这个人交流。
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
动画不同于其他部分。它的语言是讽刺的语言。我们最困难的工作是为人类和动物创造出非自然但看似自然的解剖结构。
Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.
词汇有时会被用来混淆视听，但这取决于语言研究的实践者如何将其应用于善而非恶。它就像火一样;火可以加热你的房子，也可以把它烧掉。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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, 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。
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
我们生命中最重要的对话都是在沉默中进行的。
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。
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。