I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

  • -- Frantz Fanon 法农

我认为语言现象具有基本的重要性。“说”的意思是能够使用某种语法,掌握这种或那种语言的形态,但最重要的是要假定一种文化,支持一种文明的重量。

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We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.

当我们去这些国家的时候,我们必须非常小心我们最好的行为举止。然后我谋生,我有机会养活我的妻子和孩子。从这个角度来看,这是一个非常非常棒的项目。

His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected.

如果这种影响不是发生在某一时期,并以某种方式使其提供了可以恰当地作出重大概括的具体情况,那么他的影响就会是短暂的记忆,而且相对不那么重要。

The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.

运输工具的发展创造了一个世界市场和一个包括所有发达国家和大多数不发达国家的分工机会。

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

在一段关系中,每个人都应该支持对方;他们应该互相扶持。

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

我所发现的唯一能赶上火车的方法就是错过火车。

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

除了我们对一件艺术品的感觉,我们没有其他的方法来认识它。