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。
There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped, but the languages they speak are by no means primitive.
有许多人他们的文化不发达,但他们说的语言绝不是原始的。
Many evolutionary linguists believe that all human languages have descended from a single, primitive language, which itself evolved from the grunts and noises of the lower animals.
许多进化论语言学家相信所有的人类语言都来源于单一的、原初的语言。而这种原初的语言则从其他动物的呼噜和噪声中演化出来。
They are accustomed to thinking of all semantics in terms of the primitive axioms that make up the static data typing of mainstream languages and database systems.
他们习惯于按照组成主流源和数据库系统静态数据类型化的最初设想来思考所有的语义。
In fact, some languages of primitive cultures only have number words for one, two, and many.
事实上,有些原始文化的语言里表示数字的词只有一、二和许多。
Regardless of what languages are spoken in any culture, music is an essential part of social life, no matter modern or primitive.
不管任何文化,无论说什么语言,音乐是社会生活中必是重要的一环,并不在乎此社会是现代或原始。
The Teutonic languages derive from Primitive Germanic.
日耳曼语言起源于原始的日耳曼语。
They are certainly different from the languages that most of us are familiar with, but they are no more primitive than English and Greek.
它们虽然不同于我们大多数所熟悉的观点(语言),但是它们同美语和希腊语一样不是原始的语言。
The concept of Design by Contract allows you to define some constraints and invariants of your class. Statically typed languages have a primitive version of this.
契约设计这样的概念允许我们在类中定义一些约束和限制。
There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped, who are, as we say, uncivilized, but the languages they speak are not primitive.
许多人的文化不发达,按照我们的说法,他们是不文明的。但是他们说的语言则不是原始的。
Linguists have long known, despite the prejudices of those in rich societies, that "simple" people with primitive technologies do not speak simple languages.
尽管在发达地区的人们有着偏见,但是语言学家很早就知道,只有古老的技术的“简单”人并不使用简单的语言。
The Teutonic languages derive from Primitive Germanic.
一种起源于拉丁语的语言。
It helps people have a better understanding of the primitive Indo European Language, thus promoting the research on its derivative languages.
这有助于加深对印欧语系原始母语的了解,促进对其所派生的现代相关语言的研究。
It helps people have a better understanding of the primitive Indo European Language, thus promoting the research on its derivative languages.
这有助于加深对印欧语系原始母语的了解,促进对其所派生的现代相关语言的研究。
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