I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.

  • -- William Stafford 威廉·斯塔福德

我甚至没有学习最新的词典中所建立的定义。我不是编字典的。我是一个词典编纂者不得不应付的人。我是语言发展的活生生的证据。

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It is a sobering thought that each of us gives his hearers and his readers a chance to look into the inner working of his mind when he speaks or writes.

这是一个发人深省的想法,我们每个人都给他的听众和读者一个机会,看看他的内心工作时,他说或写。

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

每一个作家,无论多么谦虚,都把一种最令人发指的虚荣心像疯子一样锁在他胸间的软垫里。