I'm indebted here to Steven Pinker's excellent book The Language Instinct which provides, I think, a superb discussion of these phenomena.

非常感谢史蒂芬·平克写了这本精彩的,《语言本能》一书,我认为该书对这些现象进行了极好的讨论

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And in perhaps the most important book on Machiavelli ever written, the author of that book declared Machiavelli to be a teacher of evil.

而在一本可能是有史以来,探讨马奇亚维利最重要的大作中，该书作者宣称,马奇亚维利是邪恶教师。

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Well, the book is assigned; you all know it.

你们都知道,该书是指定书目

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Homer's Iliad does anyone know the first line?

荷马的《伊利亚德》，有人知道该书的首句吗？

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