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语言
Language
French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.
法语是一门让说法语的人既冷静又充满活力的语言。
Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.
语言和语言能力是上帝直接赐予的礼物。
I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
我认为我比刚开始的时候更善于运用语言和意象。
I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
我决心给意第绪语一个争取生存的机会。
I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
我喜欢笑，这是我的主要爱好。我喜欢滥用英语。
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
熟练地运用一门语言是一种召唤的魔法。
There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.
当涉及到孩子和玩耍时，没有语言障碍。
We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.
我们往往只看语言，而没有意识到语言有多大的力量。
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
人是一种不单单依靠食物生存的生物，主要依靠口头禅生存。
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
神学家可能会争吵，但世界上的神秘主义者说着同样的语言。
Speak when you are angry -- and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
当你生气的时候说出来——你会做出你会后悔的最好的演讲。
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
好与坏，好与坏，只是简单的帮助或伤害。
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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。
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。
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
伟大的艺术讲的是每一个聪明人都能理解的语言。今天自称现代主义者的人说的是另一种语言。
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
想象的作品应该用通俗易懂的语言来写;它们越纯粹是想象出来的，就越需要简单明了。
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。
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。