Words represent things, ideas.

文字代表事物和思想。

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Language allows speakers to say certain things: words that describe a cultural idea may not translate exactly into another language.

语言允许说话者说一些特定的事情：描述一种文化观念的词可能无法准确地翻译成另一种语言。

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Now, British research psychologist Gram Shaffer has discovered that infants can learn words or uncommon things long before they can speak.

现在，英国心理学家格兰姆·谢弗发现，早在婴儿会说话之前，他们就能学习单词或一些不寻常的事物。

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We will try to get to the heart of the matter to better understand the most important things about words and their stories.

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The wonder of Frost is really in his tone, his way of saying things without saying them in so many words.

弗罗斯特的疑问存在于他的语调，他用极少的词语来叙述。

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You're going to see things over here and they're either going to be words or they're going to be pictures.

我会在屏幕上放一些东西,可能是单词,也可能是图片。

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"We choreographers get our fingertips on that world everyone else is afraid of, where there are no words for things, " he told Jerome Robbins.

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What you do is you go to Google, and you assign key words of things that are of interest to you that you want to track.

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Since then it has evolved to include Swedish words for the living room, Norwegian terms for bedroom furniture and Danish words for things like toilet seats and doormats.

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