Cultures without numbers, or with only one or two precise numbers, include the Munduruku and Piraha in Amazaonia.
亚马逊地区的蒙杜鲁库部落和毗拉哈部落的文化里没有数字或只有一两个精确数字。
As a child, I spent some time living with anumeric people, the Piraha who live along the banks of the black Maici River.
当我还是个孩子的时候,我和一群不使用数字的人住在一起,他们是居住在黑色麦西河畔的皮拉哈人。
Although the Piraha people might not need Numbers, think of what they're missing.
虽然皮拉罕人不需要数字,但是他们也丢失了很多。
Back in 2004, the M.I.T. team reported that the Piraha people seemed to have terms that described “one, ” “two, ” or “many.”
早在2004年,麻省理工的这个研究小组就报道说,亚马孙Piraha人的语言似乎只能表达“1、2和许多”三个概念,而无法对超过2的数进行精准表征。
The Piraha, a tribe in the Amazon in Brazil, whose language eschews number words in favor of terms like few and many, are not able to keep track of exact quantities.
在巴西亚马孙河流域的毗哈拉(Piraha)部落,当地人的语言中不喜欢使用数字,而是以“很少”和“很多”来表示,所以他们就无法掌握具体的数量。
The Piraha, a tribe in the Amazon in Brazil, whose language eschews number words in favor of terms like few and many, are not able to keep track of exact quantities.
在巴西亚马孙河流域的毗哈拉(Piraha)部落,当地人的语言中不喜欢使用数字,而是以“很少”和“很多”来表示,所以他们就无法掌握具体的数量。
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