Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

  • -- Morris West 莫里斯·韦斯特

自希腊人以来,我们就沉醉于语言之中!我们用语言做了一个笼子,把我们的上帝塞了进去!

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Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

奇怪的是,它似乎只是在描述一种语言模式,并不意味着它所说的,一个人实际上可以说一个人的意思。

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

人类语言似乎是一种独特的现象,在动物界没有明显的相似之处。