It's conventional--that is to say, it belongs in the public sphere to all of us, and there's perhaps a certain sort of Romantic loss in that.

其实这很常见，语言是属于大家的，虽然这让语言少了一些浪漫的意味。

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Why, then, should we not study the acquisition of a cognitive structure like language more or less as we study some complex bodily organ?

我们为什么不应当,像研究某些复杂身体器官那样,去或多或少地研究,像语言这样的认知结构的习得

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Again one of the oldest questions of political science very rarely asked by the political science of today that is very skeptical of the language of statesmanship.

再者，其中一个最古老的政治科学问题,今日的政治科学鲜少有人问到的是,政治语言极度深不可测,以其最古老的意义来看。

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