I'm indebted here to Steven Pinker's excellent book The Language Instinct which provides, I think, a superb discussion of these phenomena.

非常感谢史蒂芬·平克写了这本精彩的,《语言本能》一书,我认为该书对这些现象进行了极好的讨论

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And somebody once wrote many a superb champion of Longchamps, that is the racetrack, met their end on the table of some well-heeled person from the western fancy districts of Paris.

有人写过那些朗克汉普斯获的冠军赛马,朗克汉普斯是赛道名,它们的一生结束于一个,巴黎富人区的有钱人的餐桌上

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If I want to persuade you that I love you, would never leave you, you can trust me with everything, it may be a superb tactic for me to believe it.

如果我想让你相信我爱你，永远都不离开你，你什么都可以信任我，或许最好的策略便是我自己对此深信不疑。

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He's a superb scientist.

他是一位一流的科学家

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The military is a superb example.

军队是另一个绝佳例子。

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