如果你用別人能理解的語言與對(duì)方談話,那么談話會(huì)進(jìn)入對(duì)方的大腦。如果你用對(duì)方的語言與之談話,那么談話會(huì)進(jìn)入對(duì)方的心里。
?Nelson Mandela
(納爾遜·曼德拉,前南非總統(tǒng))
2. One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every dooralong the way.
一種語言可以為人生開啟一條走廊。倆種語言則會(huì)使這條人生走廊的沿途上處處開啟大門。
?Frank Smith
(弗蘭克·史密斯,美國(guó)語言心理學(xué)家)
3. The limits of my language are the limits of my world.
語言的限制就是對(duì)我的世界的限制。
?Ludwig Wittgenstein
(路德維希·維特根斯坦,奧地利哲學(xué)家)
4. Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can; there willalways come a time when you will be grateful you did.
學(xué)習(xí)一切你所能學(xué),任何時(shí)間,無論向誰;總有一天你會(huì)為你所做感到欣慰。
?Sarah Caldwell
(薩拉?考德威爾,美國(guó)歌劇指揮)
5. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
學(xué)習(xí)是無論到哪都追隨主人的財(cái)富。
?Chinese Proverb
(中國(guó)諺語)
6. You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.
除非你掌握了倆門以上的語言,否則你永遠(yuǎn)無法真正理解一門語言。
?Geoffrey Willans
(杰弗里?威蘭斯,英國(guó)作家)
7. To have another language is to possess a second soul.
掌握另一門語言,擁有第二個(gè)靈魂!
?Charlemagne
(查理曼大帝)
8. Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
不了解外語的人也無法真正了解自己的語言。
?Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(約翰·沃爾夫?qū)?middot;馮·歌德,德國(guó)詩人)
9. Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people comefrom and where they are going.
語言是文化的地圖。它為你解答人們從哪里來到哪里去。
? Rita Mae Brown
(麗塔·梅·布朗,美國(guó)作家)
10. Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of whichthey grow.
語言是靈魂的血肉,有了血肉,思想就可以奔跑,有了靈魂,語言才得以成長(zhǎng)。
?Oliver Wendell Holmes
(奧利弗·溫德爾·霍姆斯,美國(guó)詩人)