Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

  • -- Elizabeth Bowen 伊丽莎白·鲍恩

语言上的机械困难是思想上的内在困难的结果。

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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

委员会的性质是有机的而不是机械的:它不是一个结构,而是一个工厂。它生根、成长、开花、枯萎、死亡,播下的种子将由其他委员会轮流开花。

Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems.

作为人类本身是困难的,因此各种各样的定居点(梦想城市除外)都有问题。

We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.

我们正处于合作与灾难之间的竞赛,我们的应对能力正受到威胁。

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

我们思想的质量是由我们对语言的熟练程度决定的。

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

语言在字面意义和隐喻意义之间运作。

I just write mechanical things.

我只是写一些机械的东西。