Now here is something really interesting (to me),
something you can use at a standing-up-only party when everyone is tired of hearing
there are one million three-thousand-two-hundred-ninety-five words used by the Esimo for snow.
现在,这里有一些真正有趣的东西(对我来说),
当每个人在一个仅有站立的聚会听腻了埃西莫人(Esimo)对雪的
一百万个三千二百九十五个形容词的时候,你可以用上。
This is what Ezra Pound learned from Ernest Fenollosa:
Some languages are so constructed—English among them—
这就是埃兹拉-庞德(Ezra Pound)从欧内斯特-费诺罗萨(Ernest Fenollosa)那里学到的东西:
有些语言是如此精密构建的-- 英语就是其中之一 --
that we each only really speak one sentence in our lifetime.
那些我们每个人在一生中只真正说过的一句话。