没有数字，健康成年人能准确区分或回忆起的数量会降低至四。

Without numbers, healthy human adults struggle to precisely distinguish and recall quantities as low as four.

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我们必须掌握数字的认知工具，才能始终轻松识别更大的数量。

We must be handed the cognitive tools of numbers before we can consistently and easily recognize higher quantities.

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如果没有文化传统，我们的生活不会从婴儿期就充满了数字，我们所有人都会为了最基本的数量区分而挣扎。

In the absence of the cultural traditions that fill our lives with numbers from infancy, we would all struggle with even basic quantitative distinctions.

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It's just like if you restrict me to only a subset of numbers, only the odd numbers, still there's an infinity of odd numbers.

这就像,如果你把我限制在数字的子集,只是奇数,但奇数的数量却仍然是无限多的

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