历史上有许多美丽励志的名言，关于翻译和通用语言的艺术，你可能遇到过一些。 然而，学习更多的知识对翻译工作仍然有很多好处。接下来，让我们一起分享 30 句：
All I know about grammar is its infinite power. (关于语法，我所知道的是它无限的力量。)
— Joan Didion
Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes. (翻译就是改变一切，让一切保持不变。)
— Günter Grass
The past is always tense, the future perfect. (过去是未来完成的时候)
— Zadie Smith
A different language is a different vision of life. (不同的语言是对生活的不同看法。)
— Federico Fellini
Words travel worlds. Translators do the driving. (翻译控制语言，语言游历世界。)
— Anna Rusconi
Do you know what a foreign accent is? It’s a sign of bravery. (什么是外国腔？也就是勇敢的象征。)
— Amy Chua
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. (翻译不仅仅是关于文字:它使整个文化被理解。)
— Anthony Burgess
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world. (如果没有翻译，也许我最多只能在自己国家的边界徘徊。翻译是我最重要的盟友，他带我去了解这个世界。翻译是我最重要的盟友，他带我去了解世界。)
— Italo Calvino
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. (只有在语法上，你才能完美。)
— William Safire
The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. (塞万提斯对翻译的最佳描述: 翻译就像土耳其地毯的背面。)
— Leonardo Sciascia
Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence. (因为翻译，我们的生活充满了各种各样的声音。)
— George Steiner
A translator is a reader, an interpreter and a creator all in one. (译者既是读者，也是解惑者，也是创造者。)
— Bijay Kumar Das
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. (如果你用一个人能理解的语言和他交流，他会记在心里。如果你用自己的语言和他交流，他会记在心里。如果你用自己的语言和他交流，他会记在心里。)
— Nelson Mandela
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own. (翻译的艺术不是知道另一种语言，而是知道自己的语言。)
— Ned Rorem
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. (语言是灵魂的血肉，有了血肉，思想就能跑，有了灵魂，语言就能成长。)
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them. (优秀的想法并不缺乏，缺乏执行这些想法的意愿。)
— Seth Godin
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. (对我来说，语言的限制意味着世界的限制。)
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Grammar, you’re the pickiest noun I know. (语法，你是我认识的最挑剔的名词。)
— Buffy Andrews
Language is wine upon the lips. (语言就像唇间的酒。)
— Virginia Woolf
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. (初稿只是给自己讲一个故事。)
— Terry Pratchett
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. (语言塑造了我们的思维方式，决定了我们能思考什么。)
— Benjamin Lee Whorf
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. (只有在语法上，你才能完美。)
— William Safire
You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page. (你总是可以编辑糟糕的页面，但你不能编辑空白页面。)
— Jodi Picoult
Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious. 语言是第一位的。这并不意味着语言产生于意识。如果你没有语言，你就不能有意识。这并不是说语言产生于意识，如果你没有语言，你就不能有意识。)
— Alan Moore
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. (职业作家是不放弃的业余作家。)
— Richard Bach
To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world. (学习一门语言需要一个看世界的窗口。)
— Chinese Proverb
With languages, you are at home anywhere. (语言靠近身体，四海都是家。)
— Edmund De Waal
To have another language is to possess a second soul. (掌握另一种语言就像拥有第二个灵魂。)
— Charlemagne
Writers make national literature, while translators make universal literature. (作家创作民族文学，译者创作世界文学。)
— Jose Saramago
The translator is the author’s accomplice. (译者是作者的同谋。)
— Jorge Gonzalez Moore
Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words? (因为没有语言，我们就失去了自己。没有语言，我们是谁？)
— Melina Marchetta
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