And again, this could be translated in terms of a question of genes and environment.

再一次,这可以从基因和环境的角度,加以理解

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There's an extraordinary sense of verbal chaos, a kind of word hoard that modern poetry and modernism -generally, a kind of linguistic environment of great complexity from which modern poetry and modernism emerge.

这里关于口头言论的混乱有一种独特的理解，关于现代诗歌和现代性的隐藏理解,总之，是一种关于语言环境的庞大复杂性的理解,现代诗歌和现代性即是由此产生发展。

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We know there has to be some effect of the environment shaping language, obviously, because in order to know English you have to have heard English, in order to know Dutch you have had to heard, to--had to have learned and heard Dutch.

我们知道,很明显某些环境作用,塑造了语言,因为要理解英语,你必须听过英语,要理解荷兰语,你必须学过和听过荷兰语

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