A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
语言
Language
Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.
语言是发现的地方，不是躲藏的地方。
We can only think in a language that we master.
我们只能用自己掌握的语言来思考。
We've driven teenagers crazy in every language.
我们用各种语言把青少年逼疯了。
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
语言是陈述和唤起的混合物。
Language is much closer to film than painting is.
语言比绘画更接近电影。
For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
因为美言生善行。
The one overall structure in my plays is language.
我的戏剧的一个整体结构是语言。
I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.
我不知道我是否真的精通任何语言。
Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.
作家让自己被语言所吸引。
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
没有哪一种语言是粗鲁的，却能以作家的彬彬有礼为荣。
I have never designed a language for its own sake.
我从来没有为语言本身而设计过一种语言。
Your language indicates and limits what you think.
你的语言表明并限制了你的想法。
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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。
A language is a dialect with its own army and navy.
一种语言是一种拥有自己的陆军和海军的方言。
Smiles are the language of love.
微笑是爱的语言。
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。
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
善良是聋子能听见、瞎子能看见的语言。
When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.
当我们远离全球变暖，京都议定书，当我们不负责任地在向非洲艾滋病迈进的道路上行动迟缓，当我们不推进和实践我们自己的言论和标准时，我们发出了一个可怕的信息，那就是表里不一和伪善。