To understand a sentence means to understand a language.

Safety and environmental protection are the lifelines of an enterprise and must never be neglected.

我不认为自己是个名人。我认为自己是一个取得了一些成功的演员。

And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.

有时候，最艰难的战斗是在我们自己的脑海中进行的。

Architecture is a social art, and the architect is a social being.

You’ve got to have models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience—both vicarious and direct—on this latticework of models. You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your mind.