Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

  • -- Gustave Flaubert 福楼拜

语言是一只裂开的水壶,我们在上面敲出曲调,让熊跟着跳舞,而我们却时时刻刻想让星星怜悯。

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It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

这对我来说真的很难。语言,很抱歉我没有。我想我总是希望你用一个单词来代替一个单词,当我发现语法有多难,学习语法让我很沮丧。

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors.

体育比赛所花费的时间和在赛场上所受的伤害是英语国家的种族作为世界征服者所付出的代价的一部分。

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.

语言的音乐对我来说变得极其重要,而且显而易见。在我七岁的时候,我就开始写作了。我是一个诗人。

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

银行是这样一个地方,他们在晴天借给你一把伞,然后在开始下雨的时候再要回来。

poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths.

诗歌是当整个世界似乎对它的美和真理沉睡时,对生活的关注。

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

我一直在学习。墓碑将是我的毕业证书。