Benjamin Lee Whorf, an American linguist who died in 1941, held that each language encodes a worldview that significantly influences its speakers.
1941年去世的美国语言学家本杰明·李·沃尔夫认为，每种语言都蕴含着一种世界观，这种世界观会对使用者产生重大影响。
Whorf, we now know, made many mistakes.
现在我们知道，沃尔夫当时的确犯了许多错误。
Whorf came to believe in a sort of linguistic determinism.
沃尔夫开始相信一种语言决定论。
Whorf proposed first that all higher levels of thinking are dependent on language.
沃尔夫首先提出，所有高层次的思维都倚赖于语言。
The Whorf Hypothesis states that the way we think about the world is shaped by our language.
沃尔夫假说是上个世纪语言学上具有重大意义的理论，该理论的核心就是语言决定思维。
Later, this idea became to be known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, but this term is somewhat inappropriate.
后来，这种观点成为了知名的萨皮尔—沃夫假说，不过这个术语有点不妥。
Whorf believes that the structure of the language determines the structure of habitual thoughts in a society.
沃尔夫认为，一个社会中的语言结构决定了惯性思维的结构。
Whorf developed the idea that the structure of language determines the structure of habitual thought in a society.
他逐渐形成了这样一种观念：在一个社会里，语言的结构决定了习惯思维的结构。
Whorf developed the idea that the structure of language determines the structure of habitual thought in a society.
沃尔夫……得出这样的观点：语言的结构决定一个社会习惯思维的结构。
Put forward by Benjamin Lee Whorf in The Yale Report, "grammatical marker" has been a concept in the study of grammar.
“语法标记”是语言学家沃尔夫在《耶鲁报告》中提出的概念。
According to "the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis", there are two associated principles concerning the relationship between peoples thinking and language.
根据“萨皮尔·沃尔夫假设”，人类思维和语言之间有两种相关联的原则。
The American anthropologist-linguist Edward sapir and his student Benjamin lee whorf proposed a sweeping two-pronged hypothesis concerning language and thought.
美国人萨丕尔及其弟子沃尔夫提出的有关语言与思维关系的假设是这个领域里至今为止最具争议的理论。
The American anthropologist-linguist Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Lee Whorf proposed a sweeping, two-pronged hypothesis concerning language and thought.
美国人萨丕尔及其弟子沃尔夫提出的有关语言与思维关系的假设是这个范畴里至今为止最具争议的理论。
The theory of "linguistic Relativity" proposed by Whorf has attracted considerable attention. It has been systematically studied by the domestic linguistic community.
沃尔夫的“语言相对论”是人们比较关注的，也是国内语言学界研究比较多的一个思想。
There is also a weak version of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis at play - you can think different things, and are encouraged to think differently, given one language over another.
当前还有一种非充分版本的萨丕尔·沃尔夫假说，使用不同的语言，你可以思考不同的东西，并且支持你以不同的方式思考。
Being interested in the relationship of language and thought, Whorf developed the idea that the structure of language determines the structure of habitual thought in a society.
沃尔夫对语言与思维的关系很感兴趣，逐渐形成了这样的观点：在一个社会中，语言的结构决定习惯思维的结构。
Whorf attacks the universalism based on European ethnocentrism, seeds linguistic features particular to "primitive languages," and tries to construct universals on such new basis.
沃尔夫批判以欧洲中心主义为基础的普遍主义，寻求语言思维之特性，进而在新的基础上，建立人类共同的语言和思维。
Being interested in the relationship of the language and thought, Whorf developed the idea that the structure of the language determines the structure of habitual thought in a society.
沃夫对语言与思维的关系很感兴趣，逐渐形成了这样的观点：在一个社会中，语言的结构决定习惯思维的结构。
The latter view was propounded by Benjamin Lee Whorf, an American linguist of the early 20th century, who argued that different languages condition or constrain the mind’s habits of thought.
诺姆·乔姆斯基等人认为相同，也有人认为不同。后者的观点是由20世纪初的美国语言学家本杰明·李·沃尔夫提出的，他争论说，不同的语言会改变或束缚大脑的思考方式。
Grounded in Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, this paper conduct a systematic research on the inner relatedness between languages, thinking and the comparative studies of Chinese and western cultures.
系统探究语言、思维与中西文化比较这一主题，其理论基础是萨皮尔沃尔夫假设。
The syntactic system of a language and the perceptual system of the speakers of that language do not have the kind of interdependent relationship that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis claimed to have.
语言的句法系统和使用该语言的人的感知系统之间并没有萨丕尔·沃尔夫假设所声称的那种相互倚赖的关系。
The syntactic system of a language and the perceptual system of the speakers of that language do not have the kind of interdependent relationship that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis claimed to have.
语言的句法系统和使用该语言的人的感知系统之间并没有萨丕尔·沃尔夫假设所声称的那种相互倚赖的关系。
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