But those "nobodies" - long lost to history - are about to be recognized for their contributions to American literature with the publication of "Maid as Muse: How Servants Changed Emily Dickinson's Life and Language."

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Levi-Strauss writes: Whatever may have been the moment and the circumstances of its appearance in the scale of animal life, language could only have been born in one fell swoop.

列维，施特劳斯写道：,不论语言是何时何种环境下,在动物的历史中诞生的，语言只可能是一刹那间诞生。

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And this suggests that the ability to learn language and understand language is to some extent separate from these other aspects of mental life.

这表明学习语言和理解语言的能力,在某种程度上是独立于,其他方面的心理活动的

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And this is obviously a toy example but you could see the use of recursion in everyday life and in everyday use of language.

这只是个小例子,但在日常生活和日常用语中,递归的应用极为广泛

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But even some of them who'd learned language and who managed to get some sort of independent life, nevertheless will suffer from a severe social impairment.

但即便有些孤独症儿童掌握了语言,并且能够过上某种独立的生活,但却依然会受到严重社会障碍的困扰

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It turns out that if you start learning a language, a second language is where most of the work's been done, within the first few years of life you're fine.

如果你在出生的头几年里开始学习一门语言,非常努力地学习了第二门语言,那么你一切正常

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