Language has been enriched with such terms as "highbrow", "egghead", "blue-stocking", "wiseacre", "know-all", "boffin" and, for many, "intellectual" is a term of denigration.

因为这些词语，比如，“卖弄知识的人”、“书呆子”、“女才子”、“自认聪明的人”、“自以为无所不知的人”，以及“研究员”，语言都变得丰富了起来，而且对大多数人来说，“知识分子”是一个诋毁的词语。

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As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

这听起来也许有点奇怪，我们对于夏加尔绘画的看法实际在一定程度上依赖我们的语言是否有描述蓝色的词汇。

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So by using blue and yellow light, scientists are able to speak the language of the brain.

蓝光可以使这些脑细胞活跃，而黄光却可以使细胞趋于静止。 因此运用蓝光和黄光，科学家们掌握了大脑的语言。

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The parallel English and Nepali language Blue Diamond Weekly papers are being brought out by BDS, which describes itself as an organisation for sexual minorities, including homosexual, bisexual and trans-gendered people.

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His preferred tactic was confronting umpires over questionable calls, relentlessly taking on the men in blue with bursts of language of the same color.

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Russian speakers, who make an extra distinction between light and dark blues in their language, are better able to visually discriminate shades of blue.

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