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We talk about the innate abilities and the learnt abilities,
我们谈论天生的能力和习得的能力
what we inherit and what we acquire,
哪些是遗传的 哪些是后天获取的
what we're given by our culture, our society, our parents,
哪些是我们的文化社会和父母给予的
and what we get from our genes.
哪些是从基因中获得的
Chapulin. - Cricket.
Chapulin呢 -蟋蟀
Cocone. -Children.
Cocone呢 小孩
I think both of those abilities, both of those sets of things
我认为我们需要同时具备
need to be in place for you
这两大类能力
to have the full, fully-fledged abilities with language.
才能拥有成熟的语言能力
And being able to identify all these components
识别语言的所有这些成分
and understand how they fit together
并懂得如何适当地组合它们
may tell us what it is to be human.
这种能力让我们成之为人类
A cat.
猫
And somehow out of this complicated soup
如果我们想要了解语言的起源
of interactions between people, language emerges,
以及语言为什么是这样的
and that's really what we need to understand
那就需要去了解
if we are to understand where language comes from
语言如何在复杂的人与人之间的
and why it is the way it is,
互动之中产生
and it's a really difficult problem.
这件事情真的很难理解
But answering the problem is important
但解决这个问题相当重要
because it defines us,
因为它成就了如今的我们

it defines who we are.
决定了我们是谁

重点解释

We talk about the innate abilities and the learnt abilities,我们谈论天生的能力和习得的能力

talk about 谈论，谈及

His talk about apartheid created agitation.

他的关于种族隔离的谈话激起了骚动。

I never talk about gossip.

我从不传播流言蜚语。

And being able to identify all these components识别语言的所有这些成分

able to能做 ...

I may be able to help you in some way.

我也许可以从某个方面去帮助你。

He was able to cast off such an uninteresting task.

他终于摆脱了这么一项乏味的工作。

if we are to understand where language comes from and why it is the way it is,语言如何在复杂的人与人之间的互动之中产生

come from来自； 起源于

Nothing but disaster would come from such a plan.

此一计划除了导致失败而外将一无所获。

We heard clink come from that room.

我们听到那个屋子传来叮当声。