对一些人来说,6000种语言似乎是无穷无尽的。
To some, 6,000 may seem like an inexhaustible number of languages.
我们利用语言能够表达抽象概念,比如幸福和爱情,过去和未来,通过组词造句能够表达无穷无尽的思想。
Language allows us to talk about abstract ideas such as happiness or love, about the past and the future, and to combine words to express an infinite variety of ideas.
语言表现形式是无穷无尽的。因而对与语言行为的化石证据——即和语法句法有关的基因——的搜寻,足够科学家们忙上几十年了。
Language is nearly endless in its forms. So the search for its behavioral fossils-genes associated with grammar and syntax-should keep scientists busy for decades to come.
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