当这些曲调从我哥哥敏捷的手指底下生长出来，阿克什和我坐在两旁替它们编词的时候，我们能够清楚地听到它们在对我们说话。

We could plainly hear the tunes speak to us, while Akshay and I sat on either side fitting words to them, as they grew out of my brother's nimble fingers.

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语言允许说话者说一些特定的事情：描述一种文化观念的词可能无法准确地翻译成另一种语言。

Language allows speakers to say certain things: words that describe a cultural idea may not translate exactly into another language.

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让他自己弄清楚这个词的意思是什么、那个问题的答案是什么以及各种说话做事的方法。如果他愿意的话，也可以让他在其他孩子的帮助下完成。

Let him figure out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what is the answer to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or that.

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The average speaker knows, as a low-ball estimate, about 60,000 words.

保守估计,说话者平均知道大约六万个词

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