许多语言学家就是这样看待语言的。

Many linguists have looked at language in this way.

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树形模型是表示一个语言家族的发展并显示两种或更多语言的密切相关程度的一种便捷方式。

The tree model is a convenient way of representing the development of a language family and of showing how closely related two of more languages are.

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例如，与颜色不同的是，气味在许多语言文字中都无法命名，因为特定的词汇根本不存在。

Odours, unlike colours, for instance, cannot be named in many languages because the specific vocabulary simply doesn't exist.

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Then there are the people in the mountains of Arcadia who also don't speak the Doric language, and maybe they were driven up there to escape.

还有阿卡狄亚山中的人,他们也不说多里安语,也许他们也是从那里逃出的一支

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