You could make a long list but it might include things Like the capacity for language and higher thought or abstract thought, conscience, self-control, free-will.

你也许能列出一个长单子，它可能包括以下东西,比如语言能力，高级或抽象思维能力，良心，自控力和自由意志。

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When Rene Descartes argued that we are more than merely machines, his best piece of evidence for him was the human capacity for language.

勒奈·笛卡尔提出人类不只是机器的时候,他最有力的证据便是人类的语言能力

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That we share not just the capacity for language in the way a linguist might assert, but that we share a certain common moral language.

我们不只共享语言能力,如同语言学家所主张，更共享,一种特定的共同道德语言。

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No machine could do this because our capacity for language is unbounded and free.

机器并不具备语言能力,因为我们的语言能力,是不受控制的,是自由的

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More speculatively, there has been some fairly recent work studying the genetic basis of language, looking at the genes that are directly responsible for the capacity to learn and use language.

更具体的来说,一些最新的语言遗传基础研究,探查了直接影响语言学习,及使用能力的基因

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And what Darwin is claiming here, and it's a controversial and interesting claim, is that language is special in that there's some sort of propensity or capacity or instinct for language unlike the other examples he gives.

达尔文在此所表达的观点,极具争议而又非常有趣,这个观点认为,语言之所以特殊,是因为总有某些倾向,能力或本能,使得语言与他所举的其他例子有所不同

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