主题：【原创】精确的英语 -- 自以为是

This battleship has three main batteries. Each battery has a big magazine containing shells weighted 2700 pounds.

这种战列舰拥有三个主电池。每个电池都有一个很大的杂志，装着2700磅重的贝壳。

具体来说，当一个新的概念形成以后，我们会组个词来定义这个概念。

对于英语，这是个精确定义的过程。在今后的使用中不存在模糊的空间。如果不知道词义只能查字典。

对于汉语，存在两种可能：

1.不精确定义。组个词就当是定义了。汉语的词一般不长，很难做到精确定义。按照PBS的说法就是“取样步长过大，造成细微细节缺失”。

2.精确定义。但是每个汉字都是表意的，所以每个新的词语都存在两个含义：一个是字典上的精确定义，一个是字面含义。两个含义同时存在就是模糊，就是不精确。现实中，我们必然望文生义，因为表意文字的内核就是望文生义。

Ignatius' plan of the order's organization was approved by Pope Paul III in 1540 by the bull containing the Formula of the Institute.

Ignatius建立（耶稣会）的计划于1540年由教皇保罗三世由包括其信条的公牛批准。

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.

"Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"Well, I'm a panda," he says. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."