Their answers are often correct and often possessing stereotypes lets us make reasonable and correct generalizations about the world.

他们的答案通常是正确的,通常刻板印象能让我们合理地,正确地归纳世界。

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So, some sort of ability to record information and make generalizations is absolutely essential to making it through life.

所以记录信息的能力,和归纳的能力是非常重要的,是我们生存的关键。

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So we got some nice generalizations.

因此我们归纳出很好的结论。

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And, in fact, we're going to be talking about right-handed people for the most part, making generalizations in what I'll talk about now.

实际上,我们在大多数情况下讨论到的,都是右利手的人,再从中得出我所讲的一般性结论

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And if you were suddenly stripped of your ability to make generalizations, you'd be at a loss.

如果你突然失去了,归纳的能力，你就会一头无绪。

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If language can refer to just about everything from English to traffic signals, then we're not going to be able to find interesting generalizations or do good science about it.

如果语言能够表示一切,从英语到交通信号,那我们就无法得出各种有趣的概论,或是无法对语言进行科学的研究

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So, the issues are complicated as to what sort of generalizations we're--are reasonable to make and what aren't.

所以什么情况可以用刻板印象，什么不可以,问题就变得复杂了。

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The issue of connections between people is intellectually interesting for many reasons and might allow us to develop some generalizations about how people interact.

人与人之间的联系问题,能让起学术界的兴趣有很多原因，它能让我们,找出人与人之间的互动有什么一般特征。

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Once we've made some generalizations about language in this narrow sense, we could then ask, and we will ask, to what extent do other systems such as animal communication systems relate to this narrower definition.

一旦我们在狭义上,得出了某些关于语言的概论,那我们就可以发问,诸如动物交流系统之类的其他系统,会在多大程度上,符合这个狭隘的定义呢

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If you go to dreambank.net, a guy named Hill collected 50,000 dream reports; you could make some generalizations.

在dreambank。net上，有个叫Hill的人收集了五万个梦境报告;,他从中归纳了一些规律。

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