Back to Joseph Priestley, whose rudiments of English grammar insists that the custom of speaking is the original and only just standard of any language.

回到约瑟夫·普里斯特利，他认为英语语法的基础说话的习惯是任何语言的起源。

One who does grasp the rudiments of grammar finds a comforting simplicity at its heart, where there need be only nouns, the words that name, and verbs, the words that act.

而掌握基础语法的人会发现其核心内容很简单，令人安心，那就是句只需要名词动词，这就够了。

Human beings show their superiority to the brutes by their capacity for boredom, though I have sometimes thought, in examining the apes at the Zoo, that they, perhaps, have the rudiments of this tiresome emotion .

人类优越于畜生之处表现在他们会感到，然在观察动物园的猿类时，我有时会想它们 或许也有这种情绪的萌芽。

Thorne touched the hilt of his longsword. " Aye. I have squandered a third of my life trying to teach the rudiments of swordplay to churls, muttonheads, and knaves. Small good that will do me in those woods" .

索恩摸摸剑柄。" 是啊，我这辈三分之一的时间都花来教授农民、蠢蛋流氓剑术入门，派我去林里可没用武之地。"