Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

  • -- John Crowe Ransom 约翰·克劳·兰色姆

在词的意义和它们的声音之间通常没有发现任何关系,除了偶然的关系;因此,对于神秘主义者来说,当有意义的词语也可以构成一个统一的客观的重音和韵律结构时,这是不可思议的。

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On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.

另一方面,只有那么多的人真正知道她是什么样的人,比如她的口音听起来是什么样的,以及她在第一次经营哈丽特巷时得了严重的耳聋。

I’m sometimes asked ‘Can you lose the accent?’ and I say ‘No, but I can put on another one’.

有时有人问我:“你能把口音改掉吗?”我说‘不,但我可以再穿一件’。