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National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

  • -- Edward Sapir 爱德华·萨皮尔

民族语言都是既得利益集团的庞大体系，它们阴沉地抵制批判性的探究。

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Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?

医学训练教会我如何将错综复杂的故事、符号和仪式分解成清晰的体系。可以说，它帮助我更深刻地理解了神话的解剖学和生理学，以及它在社会中的相关性。没有他们，社会怎么可能存在?

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I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.

我对人们选择的形状作为他们创造语言的符号很感兴趣。在所有的形式中都有一个基本的结构，用最少的线条表示整个对象，成为一个符号。这对所有的语言、所有的人、所有的时间都是一样的。

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It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

就好像所有这些语言都是可用的，尤其是在图像方面。为什么只局限于英语?所有这些语言，各种可能性和概念都是可以交流的。

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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

最重要的是，没有任何事情改变我的信念，即自由和对自由的热爱仍然是我们民族性格的基本特征。

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Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

我国的国家犯罪是私刑。它不是一个小时的产物，不是突然爆发的无法控制的愤怒，也不是一个疯狂的暴民说不出的暴行。

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Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.a

企业是艰苦的工作。你必须把客户端与所有服务器和软件的优化系统集成起来

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