The Piraha, a tribe in the Amazon in Brazil, whose language eschews number words in favor of terms like few and many, are not able to keep track of exact quantities.

在巴西亚马孙河流域的毗哈拉(Piraha)部落，当地人的语言中不喜欢使用数字，而是以“很少”和“很多”来表示，所以他们就无法掌握具体的数量。

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A television tem working on a programme about the Amazon have just discovered a young college student living with a primitive tribe of Indians.

拍摄有关亚马孙河电视节目的一组人刚刚发现一名年轻的大学生生活在一个原始的印第安部落中间。

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The Piraha, a tribe in the Amazon in Brazil, whose language eschews number words in favor of terms like few and many, are not able to keep track of exact quantities.

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