About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

-- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 艾兹格·迪科斯彻

关于语言的使用:用钝斧头削铅笔是不可能的。试着用十根钝斧头代替它也是徒劳的。

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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

我们称失去父亲的人为孤儿;一个失去妻子的鳏夫。但是，这个人知道失去朋友的巨大痛苦，我们用什么名字称呼他呢?在这里，每一种语言都是沉默的，在无能为力中保持着平静。

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A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

对我来说，让我拿着我的缝纫机走，然后带着一些真正的新东西回来，这是一个很好的方法。

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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

我从其他烹饪书中寻找灵感。我得说我倾向于用我自己的烹饪书来为聚会做饭。

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Language is not the barrier, the heart is.

语言不是障碍，心才是。

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