A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

  • -- Edward Sapir 爱德华·萨皮尔

然而,对法语中反身用法的逻辑分析表明,这种简单是一种幻觉,它非但没有帮助外国人,反而更有意地让外国人感到烦恼。

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The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

逻辑分析的精神在实践中应与采用某种形式的国际语言的实际压力相结合,但不应使自己受到这种压力的阻碍。

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

英语和法语中缺乏简单性的这些例子,表面上都相反,几乎可以无限地增加,并适用于所有的民族语言。

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

统计学家的定义:一个人相信数据不会说谎,但他承认,在分析中,有些数据也站不住脚。

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

简单是这个世界上最难得到的东西;它是经验的最后极限,是天才的最后努力。

In the final analysis, all architecture reveals the application of human ingenuity to the satisfaction of human needs.

归根结底,所有的建筑都揭示了人类智慧在满足人类需求方面的应用。

Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.

有时候我觉得自己在做梦,因为事情的发展并不总是那么符合逻辑。