So, we're going to talk about somebody's idea about racial prejudice, but that's not a theory of language acquisition.

我们会谈到某人所提出的,关于种族偏见的理论，但它却并不是语言获得的理论。

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And what this means is that any theory of language use and language comprehension cannot simply appeal to a list.

这也就意味着,任何语言使用和语言理解的理论,都无法列出一份句子的清单

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Thomas Hobbes was the author of the first and, I believe, undoubtedly the greatest, work of political theory written in the English language.

托马斯·霍布斯是第一部，我相信，毫无疑问也是最伟大的一部，用英语写成的,政治学著作的作者。

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And so, any adequate theory of language has to allow for both the commonalities and the differences across languages.

因此,任何完善的语言理论,都必须谈及不同语言间的共性和差异

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If you hope to make it with theory of what people are and how people work, you have to explain and talk about language.

如果你想要理解关于人类本质,及其行为模式的理论,就必须得探讨并解释语言

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