He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

  • -- Horace 贺拉斯

他把颜料罐和字扔到一边,有一英尺半长。

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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

语言并不擅长描述复杂、奇怪的视觉事物。你可以试一试,读者的脑海中会有一些图像,但文字并不擅长这些。

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.

在我的家乡,行动比言语更有意义。