Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

-- Siri Hustvedt 希莉·哈斯特维特

我们的记忆片段在被想象成文字之前没有任何连贯性。时间是语言、语法和时态的属性。

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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。

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Every time that I fill a high office, I make one hundred men discontented and one ungrateful.

每次我担任要职，都使一百个人不满，一个忘恩负义。

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Even Jupiter himself cannot be in love and wise at the same time.

就连朱庇特本人也不可能同时陷入爱情和智慧之中。

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Smiles are the language of love.

微笑是爱的语言。

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