A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

  • -- Margaret Atwood 玛格丽特·阿特伍德

声音是人类的天赋;它应该被珍惜和使用,尽可能地充分表达人类的语言。无能为力与沉默相伴。

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A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

一个国际社会只有通过世界通讯才能存在,这意味着不仅仅是遍布全球的广泛的短波设施。它意味着共同的理解、共同的传统、共同的思想和共同的理想。

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

有时候,成为朋友意味着掌握时机的艺术。有沉默的时候。是时候放手了,让人们投入自己的命运。是时候收拾残局了。

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

这项任务是研究语音与它们所赋予的意义之间的关系。,声音被视为能指,最重要的是阐明声音和意义之间关系的结构。

The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him.

雨落在正义和非正义的人身上都是出了名的,但是如果我能处理好这些事情,我就会温柔而甜蜜地落在正义的人身上,但是如果我在门外抓到一个非正义的人的样本,我就会把他淹死。

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

贫富之间的不平衡是所有共和国中最古老和最致命的弊病。

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

理解只不过是由言语引起的概念。