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Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

  • -- Carol Shields 卡罗尔·希尔兹

语言是我们的生命。我们是人类，因为我们使用语言。所以我认为当我们使用更少的语言时，我们就更不像人类了。

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Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

当然，另一种更严肃的方式是，人们在诗歌和语言中发现了一些适合自己的特质，并希望复制。

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Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

真实的人类话语发生在许多语境中，而不是在某种统一的公共论坛中。

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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

人类是一种最奇特的生物。他认为他有一个灵魂，而他有几十个。

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Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

语言是发现的地方，不是躲藏的地方。

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