Right? Never mind the extent to which the language is connected to a world of which one is attempting to make sense.

我们都试图理解这个世界,语言则与这个世界息息相关,即使略去这一点不谈。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It is not a world in which language can be understood as somehow or another a means of expressing thought.

在索绪尔眼中的世界，语言不能被理解为,表达思想的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

There's no language in the world that has a rule that says the fifth word has to be a verb.

世界上并没有语言规定,说第五个词必须是动词

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Unlike Nabokov, these writers are not trying to make a language that is autonomous and separate from the world, so you will not see the kind of artifice and the labored attention to form.

不同的是这些作家并不想要营造一种,独立的和世界分离的语言，所以你不会看到这方面的炼化技巧,和费劲地塑造。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You really have, therefore, for in some way the first time in history, a dream of making all of his empire basically universal, a dream of a universal vision, for one world, under one kind of culture, one kind of language.

因此某种程度上说，这是历史上第一次出现，梦想建立统一的帝国，同一个世界的愿景，同一种文化，同一种语言。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And a lot of children I have come from different cultures, actually we cannot give them more insight into another culture, because even though they go to school with one and another, they don't know that much about each other's backgrounds, where they come from, or what part of world , what language they speak at home.

很多的孩子都是来自于,不同的文化，事实上我们给不了他们,对于其他文化的更多的见解，因为即使他们和其他的,孩子一起来上学，他们并不知道,其他人的背景，他们来自哪,或者世界的那部分，他们在家说什么语言。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

And linguists have all of these conditions they say, "No language in the world works this way."

而语言学家们知道这些条件,他们会说"世界上没有语言会这样表达"

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Children come into the world without knowing any specific language and so they have to learn pauses.

儿童出生时并不知道任何特定的语言,因此他们需要学会停顿

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

There's no language in the world that you just cannot talk about abstract things with.

世界上并不存在,无法谈论抽象概念的语言

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So, for instance, one example is there's no language in the world that ever constructs a question by switching the order of words around in a sentence.

举例来说,世界上并没有语言能够通过,改变句子中词的顺序,来构成疑问句

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But the cases of specific language impairments suggest that all of that is wrong, because there are children in this world right now who are plenty smart, who really want to communicate, and who are entirely social creatures but they can't learn language.

但是特殊言语损伤的案例表明,以上的所有都是错的,因为现在在世界上,会有些足够聪明,想要交流,完全社会生物的儿童,他们无法学习语言

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选