我还是个少女的时候，妈妈就和我说德语，可是，入乡随俗，到了美国，你就会和大多数人一样，不由自主的说起了英语。

My mother and I spoke German to each other until I was a teenager, when, like many children of immigrants, I started refusing to speak anything but English.

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他说“我们不由自主地他们建立在一个纵向的空间架构中：好的结果是上，坏的结果是下。”

"We can hardly help mapping them onto a vertical, spatial schema, with the good end 'up' and the bad end 'down'," says Casasanto.

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一般地，我们会不由自主地说，“我知道那是什么意思“,或者，如果我们不知道它是什么意思，我们会说，“它一定有某种意思，虽然我不知道究竟是啥意思

Ordinarily, we just spontaneously say, "I know what that means," or if we don't know what it means, we say, "It must mean something even though I don't know what it means."

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