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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.

  • -- Edward Sapir 爱德华·萨皮尔

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。

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It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

就好像所有这些语言都是可用的，尤其是在图像方面。为什么只局限于英语?所有这些语言，各种可能性和概念都是可以交流的。

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Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

直到现在，我才认识到制造业力量和国家运输系统之间存在着一种相互的关系，没有它们，国家运输系统就不可能得到充分的发展。

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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

宏伟与美丽是如此的对立，以至于你常常在增加美与减少美的同时，也在减少美。多样性与后者最为相似，简单性与前者最为相似。

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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

以资助的名义把钱花在子孙后代身上的原则，不过是在大规模地欺骗未来。

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And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

因此，我一直着迷于这样一个想法，即复杂性可以来自于这样的简单。

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People know two languages: their native language and gibberish.

人们知道两种语言:母语和胡言乱语。

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