I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

  • -- Emily Carr 艾米丽·卡尔

我呆呆地坐着,呆呆地望着,呆呆地望着,茫然不知所措,我在学习一门新的语言,或者更确切地说,是一门用不同方言讲的同一种语言。我坐着的那片大树林依然如此,声音可能还没有诞生。

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As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

事实上,一种超越其自身范围的民族语言,很快就会失去其原有的丰富内容,其效果并不比一种建构的语言好。

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

语言就像喝自己在静水中的倒影。我们只能从它身上得到我们当时的样子。

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

我所经历的每一次经历——婚姻、公共生活、私人生活——我都是边走边学。

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

学习不是偶然获得的,必须用热情和勤奋去追求。