When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

  • -- Christopher Ricks 里克斯

当一种语言在当下创造出一个共同体时,它只能通过一个介于现在和过去之间的共同体来实现。

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It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.

这并不是说要改造一个对颜色有不良品味的人的客厅。这是关于修复历史建筑,并向社区灌输自豪感,这可以通过设计新的公共空间和社交聚会场所来实现。

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

当你和某人发生冲突时,有一个因素可以决定是破坏你们的关系还是加深你们的关系。这个因素就是态度。

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

南斯拉夫是一个多民族社会,它只有在生活在其中的所有国家完全平等的条件下才能生存。

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

我现在看到,一般说来,讽刺是魔鬼的语言;因为这个原因,我早就干脆放弃了。

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

光泽是感知和语言的整体系统。