It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

  • -- Ferdinand de Saussure 索绪尔

对历史学家和其他人来说,能够看到不同现象的最常见的形式是很有用的,无论是语音的、形态的还是其他的,以及语言如何生存、继续和随着时间的推移而变化。

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The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

我人生中最大的挑战就是把这些孩子都养大。我帮助过我的侄女、继子女和我自己的儿子,所以最大的挑战是确保孩子们被抚养成人,并找到足够的优质时间和他们在一起。

Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it.

事实上,我认为我的方法和大多数人完全不同,你知道,有时候政治上的答案是解决问题的一种方法,有时候有更好的方法。

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.

现在,戏剧在帮助我们理解我们的处境时非常有用,相反,我们可能会理解为什么我们的剧院正在被摧毁。

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

如果你有时假装知道别人认为你知道,下次别人会认为你知道自己不知道。

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

女性在谈判桌上做出的决定看起来就不一样了。我们还有很长的路要走。我们拥有的最强大的东西是我们的选票。

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

科学史学家可能会忍不住惊呼,当范式发生变化时,世界本身也随之发生变化。

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

每个历史学家都有一个非正式的人类学,从未使用过这个词。