We want to know as curious people how children learn language, what we find attractive or unattractive, and what's the basis for mental illness.

人类的好奇心驱使我们去探索,儿童如何学习语言,什么会被感知为迷人或丑陋,心理疾病的成因又是什么

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Without emotions to drive us we would do nothing at all.

没有情感驱使，我们什么也不会做。

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He says man is political not because we have some biological impulse or instinct that drives us to participate in politics, but, he says, because we are possessed of the power of speech.

他说人类具有政治性,但不是因为,我们拥有某种生物冲动或本能,驱使我们参与政治，而是因为我们掌握了,辩论的能力。

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