No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

  • -- Edward Sapir 爱德华·萨皮尔

至少在西方世界,没有一种重要的民族语言具有完整的语法结构规律性,也没有一种逻辑范畴在语言象征意义上得到充分而一致的处理。

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Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

年轻的电影制作人应该学会如何处理金钱和权力结构。因为这就像一场战斗。

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

在信息传递中,结构比内容更重要。

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

我认为我比刚开始的时候更善于运用语言和意象。

We can only think in a language that we master.

我们只能用自己掌握的语言来思考。