具备特殊专业——比如医药、石油、建筑——的语言表达能力的译员更少。

If they needed linguistic competence in a specialized field such as medicine, petroleum, or construction, they were scarcer still.

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感受痛苦的能力并不像其他的特殊能力，如运用语言的能力或计算高等数学的能力。

The capacity for suffering is not just another characteristic like the capacity for language or higher mathematics.

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But, also, there are genetic disorders, some falling under the rubric of what's known as "Specific language impairment," where children are born without the same ability as the rest of us to learn to speak.

但被叫做"特殊言语损伤"的遗传障碍,也能使你失去语言能力,儿童出生便不具有,我们其他人所具有的学习说话的能力

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And what Darwin is claiming here, and it's a controversial and interesting claim, is that language is special in that there's some sort of propensity or capacity or instinct for language unlike the other examples he gives.

达尔文在此所表达的观点,极具争议而又非常有趣,这个观点认为,语言之所以特殊,是因为总有某些倾向,能力或本能,使得语言与他所举的其他例子有所不同

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