It could be, for instance, that language is such a good idea that every culture comes across it and develops it.

比如说,可能只是因为,语言是一个非常棒的创新,所有文化都接受了它,并且发展了它

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And part of the claim is that learning a language, learning to speak, reconfigures the human brain in such a way that is really exceptional.

这个观点的部分内容是,学习语言,学习说话,会以一种特殊的方式重新构建人类大脑

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Machiavelli would no doubt be taken up against some board of offense today for using such a term ? but that's his language. What can I say?

马基雅维利若是在当今时代说出这样的话,一定会遭受猛烈抨击,但那就是他的语言风格，我能说什么呢？

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And if you want to understand why so many white Southerners, especially in the Deep South, went to such great extents to save their slave society, remember the kinds of arguments and language used by its defenders.

如果你们想知道为何如此多的南方白种人,特别是南方腹地的人们,想要最大程度地保住他们的奴隶制社会,那就揣摩一下这些辩护者所使用的论断,和他们的语言,措辞

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There's other disorders of language such as receptive aphasia where the person could speak very fluently but the words don't make any sense and they can't understand anybody else.

还有其他的语言障碍,诸如,接收性失语症,患有这种病的病人,语言流畅,但所讲话语没有任何意义,而他们也无法理解别人的话语

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We've already done this to some extent with domains such as visual perception, memory, language and rationality, but now we're going to move to the case where it's maybe even somewhat more difficult to do this.

在某种程度上，我们已经做了,在这些领域，诸如,视觉感知，记忆，语言及合理性，但现在我们要看的例子,也许做起来有点难度。

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And such people are unable to learn and use language.

这些人无法学习和使用语言

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