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。

Benjamin Lee Whorf, an American linguist who died in 1941, held that each language encodes a worldview that significantly influences its speakers.

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这种世界观的结果的破坏性是非常大的。

The effect of all of this was, and is, devastating.

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这种世界观的问题是，它不能解释作为粒子的物质与宇宙间其它物质如何关联(这种关连显然是存在的)。

The problem with this world view is that it does not explain how matter, as particles, interacts with all other matter in the universe (which it clearly does).

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Now, think what's at stake here in this worldview, especially as we transition next Thursday to a developing though by no means unanimous or homogenous northern worldview in which reform impulses get embedded.

想想在这种世界观中最薄弱的是什么,特别是我们下周四要过渡到,一个发展中的并非统一或同质的,嵌入了改革的冲动的北方世界观

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