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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And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

在这段时间里,我逐渐成为一名更好的吉他手和词曲作者,这段时间逐渐让我觉得,我在更清晰地表达我从四岁起就有的内心感受。

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.

但我是个历史学家。我不只是对做制片人感兴趣,我对做研究感兴趣,并把研究结果展示给大众。

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.

当你想把一项政治决策转化为一项投资时,好的分析是非常有用的。它也可以反过来推动政策。

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

人总是超出他对自己的了解;因此,他的成就,一次又一次,会让他感到惊讶。

If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.

如果我是一个有战略头脑的人,我想我会有一个完全不同的职业。

In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

在许多电影中,作为许多不同的角色,我杀了许多不同的人。

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

有害的真相胜于有用的谎言。

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

历史学家:不成功的小说家。