It's this extraordinary insight that he gives us: we can only read one word at a time, we can only read one line at a time.

这是他告诉我们的非凡的洞察：,我们一次只能读一个词，或是一行。

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And one would only make sense of it through the word.

语言也是我们理解世界的必要媒介。

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A patient who had damage to part of his brain and can only say one word, "Tan," and the person would say, "Tan, tan, tan, tan," and everything else was gone.

一位大脑遭受部分损伤的病人,这位病人只会说一个字,"叹",说起话来这样的,"叹,叹,叹,叹",其他的词全都无法说出

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