Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.

  • -- Frank Luntz 弗兰克·伦茨

词汇有时会被用来混淆视听,但这取决于语言研究的实践者如何将其应用于善而非恶。它就像火一样;火可以加热你的房子,也可以把它烧掉。

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A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.

一种共同的创造需要共同的牺牲,也许支持一种建构的国际语言的最有力的论据是,它对所有民族的传统都是同样陌生的,或者显然是如此。

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.

我们从来没有认为自己是一个好乐队,我们只是觉得我们只是在玩,我们想要演奏的音乐听起来像黑色安息日或声音花园或我们当时喜欢的音乐。

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

周围没有人来迷惑我,所以我被迫成为原创。

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

我凭借自己对英语的熟练掌握,什么也没说。

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

不要说别人的坏话,但要把你所知道的每个人的优点都说出来。

I never confuse the cost of something with its value.

我从不把某物的价格和它的价值混为一谈。