Attempts to correlate specific language functions with particular parts of the brain have not advanced very far.

试图把特定的语言功能和大脑特定区域相联系的努力还没有取得很大进展。

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Chinese web giant Baidu is partnering up with Microsoft's search engine Bing, to offer its English language functions to foreign users.

中国网站巨头百度将与微软旗下的搜索引擎“必应”合作，为国外用户提供英语的搜索功能。

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It combines language functions with language forms closely, which is of great significance and value in translation.

它将语言功能与语言形式紧密地结合起来，对翻译研究具有很大的意义和价值。

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Through the implant process,called Intra-cranial Electrophysiology,or ICE, the researchers have found that Broca's area processes three different language functions in succession within a quarter of a second.

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It has to do with the god Hermes who conveyed language to man, who was in a certain sense, among many other functions, the god of communication, and hermeneutics is, after all, obviously about communication.

它与赫耳墨斯，即教给人类语言的神祇有关，从某种意义上来说，赫耳墨斯是沟通之神，所以诠释学显然和沟通交流有关。

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Using the process called Intra-cranial Electrophysiology, clinical tests in Boston and New York found that one small part of the brain, known as Broca's area, computes three different language functions, all within a quarter of a second.

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That's because the right side of the brain can take over some language functions.

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They're very aware of language and how it functions and its potential to amuse, its potential to set up expectation and to create surprises.

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Mary Lou Jepsen of Google believes we can better understand brain disease, and brain functions like language learning, if we can massively increase the resolution of brain scans.

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