For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

  • -- Wallace Shawn 华莱士肖恩

出于某种原因,人们觉得我很有趣。很难定义一个想法为什么有趣。更难以定义一个人为什么会有趣。这是一个我根本无法定义的词。但不管我是否完全知道它是什么,我似乎就是它。

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It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.

语言学的目标之一就是定义自己,识别属于自己的领域。在那些依赖心理的情况下,它会间接地这么做,保持独立。

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

艺术和诗歌作家们曾多次尝试用抽象的方式来定义美,用最普遍的术语来表达美,为美寻找一些普遍的公式。

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

每个艺术家都是天生的。这比上次要难得多,时间也更长。

It's hard to be married to me, and it was a lot harder when I was younger!

和我结婚很难,我年轻的时候更难!