McWhorter 承认正式的语言并不是绝对必要的，也没有提出任何激进的教育改革——他实际上是在为失去一些美丽但相对不实用的东西而悲伤。

McWhorter acknowledges that formal language is not strictly necessary, and proposes no radical education reforms—he is really grieving over the loss of something beautiful more than useful.

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随着年纪的增大，我们会失去一些肌肉组织。

As we age we lose muscle tissue.

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你获得一些的同时，也失去一些。

You win some, you lose some.

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It makes sense that we pay families who have lost a father or a mother so that they can keep going.

我们给失去亲人的家庭,付一些钱是有道理的,这样他们可以继续生活

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You're in the process of becoming more mature, more differentiated and you're losing potential at the same time.

你正在成熟的过程中,分化得更加彻底,同时也失去了一些潜能

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I may lose some of my previous beliefs,lose some of my previous memories, but that's okay as long as it's a slowly-evolving personality with enough overlap.

也许会失去先前一些信仰和记忆，只要这是相似度够高的缓慢进化就可以了。

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