Our "thing Language" tends to present whatever we discuss as if it were a separable object in space.
我们使用一种“物化的语言”（thing language），把我们讨论的所有内容像空间中一个个可以分割的物体来呈现。
The most extraordinary thing about language, however, is that one doesn't have to be a genius to set its wheels in motion.
然而，语言最非凡之处在于，一个人不必成为天才也能驾驭语言。
Saying "thank you" is probably the first thing most of us learn to do in a foreign language.
说“谢谢”可能是我们大多数人学习外语要做的第一件事。
Another thing that distinguishes a real language is a property we call "discreteness".
区分真正语言的另一因素是我们称为“间断性”的一种特质。
They're the only thing that looks like human language in that respect.
在这方面，它们是唯一看起来像人类语言的东西。
One thing we learn in language design courses is that every language should be designed for a purpose.
我们在语言设计课程中学到的一件事是每种语言都应该有它的设计目的。
To master a language is not an easy thing.
掌握一门语言不是一件容易的事情。
In fact, I think it would be a clearly bad thing if any one language won at any layer.
事实上，我认为倘若有一种语言在任何一层上战胜了其他语言，都肯定是一件坏事情。
This added complexity isn't significant in a programming language and is quite a natural thing to do in reality, but it's the frequent source of the XML message serialization failure.
在编程语言中添加的这种复杂性并不十分奇怪，事实上是非常正常的事情。但是，它经常是导致XML消息序列化失败的起因。
No doubt, they all have one thing in common: they're in a language that you're capable of reading.
不用怀疑，这些内容都有一个特点：他们是用你能读懂的语言写成的。
While these composers have different personal styles, they write in an accessible musical language. And Spano says there's one thing they all share.
虽然这些作曲家有不同的风格，可是他们都用一种可以让人们理解的音乐语言来写乐曲。
When adopting a programming language, the most important thing to consider is the developer's skills.
采用编程语言时，要考虑的最重要事情是开发人员的技能。
This is the kind of thing where having a sense of the actual language is completely necessary to determine the tone of a sentence, or to decide what bits to translate and what bits not to.
这种情况下，要决定一句话的语气，或者哪几个字不用翻译出来而那几个需要，就必须对这种语言有一种很切实的感觉。
So, all this language is produced because you can't ever get to that last thing; you have to keep hashing it over.
所以，这一切语言就产生了，因为你永远没法知道最后那点，你必须一直详细讨论它。
In other words the language of an utterance is crafted to say some particular thing.
换言之，说出口的语言实际像是经过精心雕琢，来表达特定的意思。
The interesting thing about learning a new language is that each language has expressions and concepts that don’t appear in others.
学习一种新语言的的乐趣在于，每一种语言都存在着其他语言没有的表达和概念。
The only thing I was good at in this school where I couldn't understand the language was silence.
我在这所学校惟一所获得的就是不理解这种语言而感到的寂寞。
The next thing you’ll need is a basic grammar guide and a dictionary for the language you want to study.
第二件事，你要去找一本基础的语法指南和一本该门语言的字典（小编：不废话！ 我要学日语还能去买一本法语字典啊……）。
In other cases, the names offer insights into how language - especially English - is an endlessly evolving thing that takes fascinating twists and turns through popular use.
而在其他的一些情况中，地名则显示了一门语言—尤其是英语—是在不断进化的，它们迷人地一转身，以另一种形式在人群中广泛地传播着。
And of course, in the event that it turns out to be real, it will be the most important thing to happen to human beings since the invention of language.
当然，如果奇点真的出现，它将会成为继语言发明以来人类所遭遇的最重大事件。
Do that in whatever language, and vocabulary that make sense to the thing you are describing, and how people think about that thing.
无论你使用哪种语言、什么词汇，只要将问题描述清楚就万事大吉了。
Writers of this kind insist that there is such a thing as women's language. Women write not just with their heads and their phalluses but with their whole bodies.
这个类别的作家坚持认为有,女性语言这么一说，女人,用整个身体书写。
The power here is that you are authoring your own language to describe this thing, not trying to describe it with another more granular, detailed language and its own ridged syntax.
可见，DSL的好处在于，它赋予你用自己的语言表述事物的能力，没有粒度更细、更关注细节的苛刻语法体系。
In other words, Saussure denies that there is such a thing in language as a natural sign.
换句话说，Saussure否认，语言中有自然符号这种东西。
I'm all for bastardisation of the language, but with lol, that thing you thought was rubbish really is rubbish".
我认为其完全是语言的混蛋化（bastardisation），但是像lol，你认为它是垃圾它真地就是垃圾。
I'm all for bastardisation of the language, but with lol, that thing you thought was rubbish really is rubbish".
我认为其完全是语言的混蛋化（bastardisation），但是像lol，你认为它是垃圾它真地就是垃圾。
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