A word is the carving and colouring of a thought, and gives it permanence.

  • -- Osbert Sitwell 奥斯伯特·西特韦尔

一个字是一个思想的雕刻和着色,并赋予它永久性。

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A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

一个词对一个作家来说和对另一个作家来说是不一样的。有人把它从肚子里扯出来。另一个人从大衣口袋里把它掏了出来。

The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.

“癌症”这个词带来了巨大的恐惧,对未来的恐惧,对家庭的恐惧。