常常有人問起,我們為什麼要學外語?為什麼有人會那麼多門外語?作為中國人,學好漢語的同時為什麼要學一門外語?今天這些名言警句道出了真諦,相信你會找到答案。
1. 「一門語言會讓你的生活變得多姿多彩。一路上,兩種語言在途中會為你打開每一扇門。」「One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.」
-Frank Smith
2. 「擁有另一種語言就是擁有第二個靈魂。」「To have another language is to possess a second soul.」
-Charlemagne查理曼大帝
3. 「如果我們說一種不同的語言,我們會感知到一個有點不同的世界。」
「If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.」
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
4.「如果你用一個人能聽懂的語言和他說話,那就會進入他的大腦。如果你用他自己的語言和他說話,那就會打動他的心。」「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 納爾遜曼德拉
5. 「Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.」「對外語一竅不通的人對自己的母語也一竅不通。」
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
6.「我的語言的極限就是我的世界的極限。」「The limits of my language are the limits of my world.」
7. 「You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.」「除非你至少懂兩門語言,否則你永遠不會讀懂一門語言。」
-Geoffrey Willans 傑弗裡Willans
8.語言是一座城堡,每個人都應為它增磚添瓦。「Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.」
-Ralph Waldo Emerson拉爾夫·瓦爾多·愛默生
9.「世界上有幾百種語言,但一個微笑就能說出所有的語言。」「There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.」
-Unknown author 未知的作者
10. 語言是靈魂的血液,思想在其中流淌和成長。「Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.」
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
11. 「語言塑造了我們思考的方式,並決定了我們可以思考什麼。」「Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.」
-Benjamin Lee Whorf
12. 「我們可能有不同的宗教,不同的語言,不同的膚色,但我們都屬於同一個人類。」「We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.」
-Kofi Annan
13. 語言是文化的路線圖。它告訴你它的人民來自哪裡,他們要去哪裡。」
「Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.」
-Rita Mae Brown
14. 「學習是一種財富,它會跟隨主人到任何地方。」
「Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.」
-Chinese Proverb 中國諺語
15. 「語言和土地一樣,都是一個地方。從某種意義上說,與它隔絕就是無家可歸。」
「Language, as much as land, is a place. To be cut off from it is to be, in a sense, homeless.」
-Lauren Collins 勞倫·柯林斯
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