According to Stanford professor Lera Boroditsky, about a third of the world's languages discuss space in absolute terms like this rather than the relative ones we use in English.

斯坦福大学教授莱拉·博格迪特斯基表示，世界上大约有三分之一的语言在谈论空间时会使用这样的绝对方位词，而不是像英语一样使用相对方位词。

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I guess my, my favorite professor right now is Lera Boroditsky.

我觉得我最喜欢的教授是莱拉•博格迪特斯基。

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Lera approached one, an image of the Holy Mother, silent pain in her flat painted eyes.

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Both liked to take a misanthropic posture, but against what, Lera could never guess.

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Lera stared out at the activity on Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya, where the traffic never ended.

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