We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

  • -- Booker T. Washington 布克·华盛顿

我们不只是借用词语;有时,英语在小巷里追逐其他语言,把它们打得不省力气,搜刮口袋里的新词汇。

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I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.

我做过不少广告。我还在西班牙做过一些表演和表演工作。我为想学英语的人制作了很多西班牙语教育视频。

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

因为神话是生命的基础;这是一种永恒的模式,一种虔诚的公式,当生命从无意识中复制出自己的特性时,它就会流入其中。

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

我认为音乐是一种语言。如果一个音乐形式吃掉了自己的尾巴,它就会死亡。所以它需要是一个杂种,它需要被杂交。

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

我们可能总是相信,代数是不好的代数,它不能被翻译成好的英语和健全的常识。

After all, every use of language without exception has some, if not all, of the characteristic features of lies.

毕竟,每一种语言的使用无一例外地都有一些(如果不是全部的话)谎言的特征。

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

越来越多的来自外界的不请自来的礼物可能会被无意识的怨恨所接受。