英语是一门活生生的语言。

English his a living language.

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语言，究其根本，是一种活生生的、不断演变的社会元素。

Language, by its nature, is a living, ever-changing force in society.

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语言本身就是活生生的。

The words themselves live.

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You say to yourself, "Ah ha! There is an example of somebody taking language by the scruff of the neck and changing it as an individual, exerting an individual will over against the conventional nature of language."

你也许会想，这不就是一个,凭个人力量改变语言,的活生生的例子吗,它的确改变了语言的惯例“

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