And part of the claim is that learning a language, learning to speak, reconfigures the human brain in such a way that is really exceptional.

这个观点的部分内容是,学习语言,学习说话,会以一种特殊的方式重新构建人类大脑

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So, these rulers have a coercive ability in creating, and I'll come back to this, large standing armies that will be arriving not immediately, they're not arriving by train or being helicoptered in at some distant command, but they will get there if there's trouble.

这些统治者们以铁腕构建极权,稍后我会谈到这一点,一只大规模的军队,在当时很难进行远程调度,因为他们没法坐火车或者搭直升机立刻赶到,但他们最终会到达事发处

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