Benjamin Lee Whorf, an American linguist who died in 1941, held that each language encodes a worldview that significantly influences its speakers.

1941年去世的美国语言学家本杰明·李·沃尔夫认为，每种语言都蕴含着一种世界观，这种世界观会对使用者产生重大影响。

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The latter view was propounded by Benjamin Lee Whorf, an American linguist of the early 20th century, who argued that different languages condition or constrain the mind’s habits of thought.

诺姆·乔姆斯基等人认为相同，也有人认为不同。 后者的观点是由20世纪初的美国语言学家本杰明·李·沃尔夫提出的，他争论说，不同的语言会改变或束缚大脑的思考方式。

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The American anthropologist-linguist Edward sapir and his student Benjamin lee whorf proposed a sweeping two-pronged hypothesis concerning language and thought.

美国人萨丕尔及其弟子沃尔夫提出的有关语言与思维关系的假设是这个领域里至今为止最具争议的理论。

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This is not a new concept--the linguist Benjamin Whorf advanced it a long time ago--but Contributing Editor Dan Seligman does a delightful job of bringing it back to life every now and then.

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Indeed, one of the foundational linguistic theories of the twentieth century, which came to be called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, was based in part on the work of Benjamin Whorf, an inspector for the Hartford Fire Insurance company.

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