A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
语言
Language
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。
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
语言是自由创造的过程;它的法则和原则是固定的，但是生成原则的使用方式是自由的，并且是无限变化的。甚至词语的解释和使用也需要一个自由创造的过程。
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
大自然总是在说话。她讲的是一种真诚的观察者在平和的心境中能够理解的语言。豹子、眼镜蛇、猴子、河流和树木;当我在喜马拉雅山麓流浪时，他们都是我的老师。
I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
我不懂语法规则……如果你试图说服人们做某事，或者买东西，在我看来，你应该使用他们的语言，他们每天使用的语言，他们思考的语言。我们尽量用方言写作。
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
最重要的事情往往是最难说出口的。它们是你感到羞耻的东西，因为语言会减少你的感觉——当你脑海中永恒的东西被拿出来的时候，它们只会缩小到活生生的大小。
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
我们称失去父亲的人为孤儿;一个失去妻子的鳏夫。但是，这个人知道失去朋友的巨大痛苦，我们用什么名字称呼他呢?在这里，每一种语言都是沉默的，在无能为力中保持着平静。
[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.
如果你仔细想想，语言确实是一项非常了不起的发明。我脑子里有一个非常复杂，混乱，混乱的想法。我坐在这里发出咕哝的声音，希望在你的脑海中构建一个类似的混乱的，混乱的想法，与之类似。
I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.
我在祖父去世前见到了他，那是我第一次看到父亲和他的一个亲戚在一起。很有趣的是，我把自己的父亲看作一个儿子，他的肢体语言和态度也随之改变，这让我们的关系变得更好。
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
你不能写教科书之外的人物，你也不能使用术语。你必须用一个六岁的孩子能听懂的语言清晰、简单、纯粹地说;然而，语言的含义和暗示，以及它的含意，都能吸引最高的智力。
Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I've always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I've always loved it and I like how those words sound together.
每个人都有一种语言或代码他们用在他们的妻子或女友或男友或你。这是一种语言，除了他们和陌生人的语言。我可能一直滥用头韵，但我一直很喜欢它，我喜欢这些词组合在一起的感觉。
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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。
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
像智者一样思考，但要用人民的语言交流。
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。
Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.
实际上，英语是一种通用语言;它是音乐和与世界其他地方交流的第一语言。
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。