European countries have been trying to stem the tide of a near financial meltdown that started in Greece, but is now threatening to engulf other heavily indebted countries.

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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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