1. If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart. ——Nelson Mandela
如果你用别人能理解的语言与对方谈话,那么谈话会进入对方的大脑。如果你用对方的语言与之谈话,那么谈话会进入对方的心里。 ——纳尔逊·曼德拉(前南非总统)
2. The limits of my language are the limits of my world. ——Ludwig Wittgenstein
语言的限制就是对我的世界的限制。 ——路德维希·维特根斯坦(奥地利哲学家)
3. Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can; there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did. ——Sarah Caldwell
学习一切你所能学,任何时间,无论向谁;总有一天你会为你所做感到欣慰。——萨拉·考德韦尔(美国著名歌剧导演)
4. To have another language is to possess a second soul. ——Charlemagne
掌握另一门语言,拥有第二个灵魂!——查理曼大帝
5. Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. ——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
不了解外语的人也无法真正了解自己的语言。 ——歌德(德国著名思想家、作家)
6. Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. ——Rita Mae Brown
语言是文化的地图,它为你解答人们从哪里来到哪里去。——瑞塔·梅·布朗(英国讽刺小说作家)
7. Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. ——Oliver Wendell Holmes
语言是灵魂的血肉,有了血肉,思想就可以奔跑,有了灵魂,语言才得以成长。 ——奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯(美国著名法学家)
8. You can never understand one language until you understand at least two. ——Geoffrey Williams
除非你掌握了两门以上的语言,否则你永远无法真正理解一门语言. ——杰弗里·威廉姆斯
9. One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way. ——Frank Smith
一种语言可以为人生开启一条走廊,两种语言则会使这条人生走廊的沿途上处处开启大门。——弗兰克·史密斯
10. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ——Chinese Proverb
学习是无论到哪都追随主人的财富.(中国谚语)