Life is measured by thought and action, not by time.
生命的价值是用思想和行为来衡量的,而不是寿命的长短。
is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the vernacular of his family.
就好像他本国语言的总词汇量和自己咿呀学语时他家庭所接纳的他的词汇量之比。