What is language for?

語(yǔ)言到底是用來(lái)干什么的？

I'm fed up with him.

我受夠他了。

Was the philosopher who refused to look through Galileo's telescope more culpable than those who alleged that the spiral nebulae observed with Lord Rosse's great telescope in the eighteen-forties were scratches left by the grinder?

某位哲學(xué)家曾拒絕使用伽利略的望遠(yuǎn)鏡去觀察天空；到了19世紀(jì)40年代，有人硬把羅斯勛爵高倍望遠(yuǎn)鏡觀測(cè)到的螺旋狀星云說(shuō)成是磨鏡工留下的磨痕。難道反對(duì)伽利略的哲學(xué)家比詆毀羅斯勛爵造謠者應(yīng)受到更大的譴責(zé)嗎？