Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

  • -- Willard Van Orman Quine 威拉德·冯·奥曼·蒯因

不加批判的语义学是博物馆的神话,在这个神话中,展品是意义,文字是标签。切换语言就是改变标签。

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None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

没有人知道下一个变化是什么,什么意想不到的机会就在眼前,等待几个月或几年的时间来改变我们生活的基调。

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

神话是一种试图叙述整个人类经历的企图,其目的太深,太深入血液和灵魂,无法用精神来解释或描述。

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.

正如普罗提努斯告诉我们的,我们选择了适合灵魂的身体、父母、地点和环境,正如神话所说,这些都属于灵魂的需要。

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

史诗以某种伟大的象征态度表现生活。它不能严格地说象征着生命本身,但总是某种生活方式。

Because when you’re wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.

因为当你疯狂地爱上一个人,一切都会改变。