Language is not a cultural artifact that we learn the way we learn to tell time or how the federal government works. Instead, it is a distinct piece of the biological makeup of our brains.
语言不是一种文化产物,不像我们学习报时或了解联邦政府运作那样。相反,它是我们大脑生物构成的一个独特部分。
实验室里的科学家不仅仅是一个技术人员:他还是一个面对自然现象的孩子,这些现象给他留下了深刻的印象,就像它们是童话故事一样。
The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.