Most number systems, then, are the by-product of two key factors: the human capacity for language and our inclination for focusing on our hands and fingers.

因此，大多数数字系统都是两个关键因素的意外结果：人类的语言能力及我们对手和手指的关注倾向。

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They wanted to see if chimpanzees had the mental capacity for language.

他们试图确认黑猩猩是否有语言的心智能力。

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No machine could do this because our capacity for language is unbounded and free.

机器并不具备语言能力，因为我们的语言能力，是不受控制的，是自由的。

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You could make a long list but it might include things Like the capacity for language and higher thought or abstract thought, conscience, self-control, free-will.

你也许能列出一个长单子，它可能包括以下东西,比如语言能力，高级或抽象思维能力，良心，自控力和自由意志。

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When Rene Descartes argued that we are more than merely machines, his best piece of evidence for him was the human capacity for language.

勒奈·笛卡尔提出人类不只是机器的时候,他最有力的证据便是人类的语言能力

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That we share not just the capacity for language in the way a linguist might assert, but that we share a certain common moral language.

我们不只共享语言能力,如同语言学家所主张，更共享,一种特定的共同道德语言。

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Anthropologists now believe Homo sapiens succeeded, unlike other members of the genus Homo, Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon for example, because our brains had a greater capacity for speech and language.

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In another cut of the data, we recently ranked the findings on four criteria to find the Friendliest Countries: ability to befriend locals, success in learning the local language, capacity for integrating themselves into the community, and ease in which they fit into the new culture.

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All are written in the social-realist style, and all are marked by Mr Wilson's gift for dialogue, his feeling for language and his capacity to evoke unsentimental emotion.

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