A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
语言
Language
They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?
他们不能让它说他们想说的话。这就是保持旧语言的开始和结束:如果教会放弃了它，谁会记得该怎么说呢?
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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.
我们的语言明智地感受到了独处的两面性。它创造了“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。
That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified.
这意味着以特定的方式提出问题，吸引那些人，然后成为你自己的语言和思维过程的囚徒。这种情况一直都在发生，只是变得更加严重了。
A valid question. We know nothing about their language, their history or what they look like. But we can assume this: they stand for everything we don't stand for. Also they told me you guys look like dorks!
一个有效的问题。我们对他们的语言、历史和长相一无所知。但我们可以这样假设:它们代表着我们不代表的一切。他们还说你们看起来像呆子!
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。
The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.
一种语言的心理，以这样或那样的方式，由于无法控制的因素而强加于人，与一种语言的心理是非常不同的，这种语言的心理是一个人接受自己的自由意志。
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
语言的清晰度和内容仍然不够……它还必须有一个目标和一个当务之急。否则，我们从语言堕落到喋喋不休，从喋喋不休到胡言乱语，从胡言乱语到混乱不堪。
The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.
学习词汇的最后一个动机应该是给人留下深刻印象。语言是需要后天习得的，因为我们迫切需要它们——去传达，去触及，去表达我们内心的某种东西，去理解他人。
So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.
就一种建构的国际语言的倡导者而言，他们的建议实际上在词汇和一般程序精神上有多少共同之处，这是相当令人惊奇的。
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。
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。
And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.
我必须非常努力地对自己说积极的话。如果我不这样做，那就真的很难度过这一天，我会非常沮丧，只想哭。我的全身语言都变了。我更容易倒下。
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A different language is a different vision of life.
不同的语言是不同的生活愿景。
Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.
即使我认为用英语，它更像是一种表演语言而不是法语。
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
他们非常强调语言的明确性，以表达细微差别和显示细微差别。
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
舞蹈是身体灵魂隐藏的语言。
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
但是如果思想腐化了语言，语言也能腐化思想。
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
语言具有隐藏的力量，就像潮汐上的月亮。