But through the course of human history, nobody has ever encountered another group of humans that did not have a language.

但在人类历史的进程中,还没有人曾经遇到过,没有语言的人类族群

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it's the study of how languages change over time.

它研究的是语言的历史变化。

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Levi-Strauss writes: Whatever may have been the moment and the circumstances of its appearance in the scale of animal life, language could only have been born in one fell swoop.

列维，施特劳斯写道：,不论语言是何时何种环境下,在动物的历史中诞生的，语言只可能是一刹那间诞生。

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They thrust together different texts, different languages, writing from different historical periods, all there, compressed in that remarkable mad song that concludes the poem.

它们将不同文字，不同语言，不同历史时代的书写，相互交织穿插，都呈现在那里，摘要叙述在一首举世闻名却又疯狂的结尾歌里。

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And languages that we know now as creoles, the word refers back to their history.

而这些叫做克利奥尔语的语言,再次说明了它们的历史

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Just imagine a philologist being confronted with the idea that the meaning of words at a certain historical moment isn't the only thing that matters in understanding the meaning of a poem.

想象一下，一个语言学家看到一个理论指出,一个字在特定历史阶段的语义,不是影响诗歌意思理解的,唯一因素。

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We study language diachronically--that is to say, we study its history.

但是我们学习的是语言的历史。

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