Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

  • -- Yann Martel 扬·马泰尔

语言并不擅长描述复杂、奇怪的视觉事物。你可以试一试,读者的脑海中会有一些图像,但文字并不擅长这些。

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We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation.

我们之间有一些真正的政治分歧,但我们都有共同的目标:清洁的空气和水,没有伤害的工作场所,安全的交通系统,举几个监管可以带来的好处。

When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.

当一颗仁慈的心凝视着利库格斯共和国时,它的赞美中夹杂着一定程度的恐惧。

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

在说服方面,心与心是不匹配的;合宪性与同情心是不匹配的。

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

圣地!圣地!你肯定不相信神。你的论点是什么?你的证据在哪里?

There is no departing from the words of the law.

不可离弃律法的言语。

Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.

语言无法描述某些情绪。