Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

  • -- George Gilbert Aime Murray 乔治·吉尔伯特·艾梅·默里

希腊文在很大程度上是一种活的语言,一种仍然没有意识到语法的语言,不像我们的语言那样,由定义主导,并以词典为基础。希腊文在很大程度上是一种活的语言,一种仍然没有意识到语法的语言,不像我们的语言那样,由定义主导,并以词典为基础。

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The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

这个字典的问题是,你必须先知道一个字是怎么拼写的,然后才能去查这个字是怎么拼写的。

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that "thousands" has almost passed out of the dictionary.

我们正变得如此习惯于数以百万计的美元,以至于“数以千计”几乎从字典中消失。

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

高级希腊诗歌没有虚构情节;它的任务是表达英雄传奇和神话。

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

在这个世界上,除了大自然的野性之外,没有任何事物的起源不是希腊的。