I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

  • -- Ella Maillart 梅拉特

我想学几门外语,因此我不得不出国。

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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。

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

英语和法语中缺乏简单性的这些例子,表面上都相反,几乎可以无限地增加,并适用于所有的民族语言。

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

二十年前我自己写的许多文章现在给我的印象是,它们对我来说是相当陌生的东西。

And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.

坦率地说,来自我们港口的安全威胁来自外国货物。