It turns out that sign and--the developmental milestones of sign languages and the developmental milestones of spoken languages are precisely the same.

手语的发展阶段,和口语语言的发展阶段是完全相同的

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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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What we're going to see with programming language is that we're going to use higher-level abstracts.

我们将要看到的是,我们将会在高端的阶段中使用编程语言。

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