In English, tense reflects directly not natural time but what this paper calls linguistic time.

英语中时直接反映的并非自然时间而是本文提出的语言时间。

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It was, in fact, Mourinho's linguistic ability that gave him his leg-up in big-time football.

实际上，是穆里尼奥的语言才能成就了他在足球领域的辉煌。

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Members of the Amondawa tribe lack the linguistic structures that relate time and space - as in our idea of, for example, "working through the night".

这个部落使用的语言缺少相关结构把时间和空间结合在一起，不像我们可以表达诸如“工作一整夜”这样的想法。

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Whatever I'm writing about all the time and chapters rehashing since I have written so that's linguistic.

不论一直以来我在写什么,自从我开始写作，就一直寻求变化,语言因素是这种改变的动因。

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So, if linguistic diversity increases with time, then Africa, where humanity evolved, and Asia, its first staging-post to world domination, should be the greatest Babels.

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This would not be the first time a bit of linguistic circumlocution got the country out of a revenue bind.

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Maybe I have spent too much time in post- linguistic turn academia, but the importance of language in general, and definition and metaphor more specifically, is not exactly a new or particularly controversial position.

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