It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.

  • -- Deborah Tannen 德博拉·坦嫩

我们倾向于把每一个问题都当作是双方之间的斗争来处理。我们在标题中看到它总是使用战争的隐喻。这是一种普遍的敌意和争论的气氛,已经占据了我们的公共话语。

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There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.

没有战争故事。我最终成为一名投弹手,但我从未出过国。也不是因为我在打棒球。只是发生了一系列的事情。

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

有无限的光影和颜色的阴影…这是一种非常微妙的语言。弄清楚如何说那种语言是一项终生的工作。

Its language is as bare as a monk's cell, and as uninviting.

它的语言就像僧侣的囚室一样光秃秃的,也一样令人生厌。

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

烧饭不是无能,而是战争。