But we do not consider how many have “a bad ear” for words, nor how often the most eloquent find nothing to reply.
可我们从未想过,多少人对言语也缺乏敏锐的听觉,又有多少时候,最善言辞的人也无从作答。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Truth of Intercourse —
But we do not consider how many have “a bad ear” for words, nor how often the most eloquent find nothing to reply.
可我们从未想过,多少人对言语也缺乏敏锐的听觉,又有多少时候,最善言辞的人也无从作答。