文字

• In his hands, comic jargon and dialect became a finished literary weapon .
  在他的手里，诙谐的方言，俚语成了完美的文字武器。
• An amusing bit of copy would circulate until no one could be sure of its origin .
  一则有趣的文字往往流传到谁都不知道它的出处。
• Most farmers are horrible at paperwork, mostly because they don't have time .
  多数农民都害怕文字工作，主要是因为他们没有时间。
• Our fallback position was thus in print before our negotiations had ever begun .
  我们的谈判还没有开始，我们的底牌就见诸文字了。
• Man invented writing to spatialize , i.e. preserve language .
  人类发明了文字，才能给予语言以形态，也就是说，才能把语言保存下来。
• One of the purposes for the development of writing was to preserve human communication .
  文字发展的目的之一，就是保存人类的信息。
• Carnot wished "to free geometry from the hieroglyphics of analysis" .
  Carnot希望“把几何学从分析学的画符样难懂的文字中解放出来。”
• She looked right into his face with liquid, untranslatable eyes .
  她的眼睛一直看着他：那两只水汪汪的眼睛，它们的妙处文字不能表达。
• I sat down to put my arguments in writing, which i copied fair and sent to him .
  我坐下来，把我的论据形诸文字，誊写清楚，给他寄去。