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考研英语翻译真题及译文归纳(1986-2011)000
考研英语翻译真题及译文
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(46)In physics, one approach takes this impulse for unification to its extreme, and seeks
a theory of everything—a single generative equation for all we see.It is becoming less clear,
however, that such a theory would be a simplification, given the dimensions and universes
that it might entail, nonetheless, unification of sorts remains a major goal..This tendency
in the natural sciences has long been evident in the social sciences too. (
47)Here, Darwinism seems to offer justification for it all humans share common origins it seems reasonable to
suppose that cultural diversity could also be traced to more constrained beginnings. Just as the bewildering variety of
human courtship rituals might all be considered forms of sexual selection, perhaps the world’s languages, music, social
and religious customs and even history are governed by universal features.
(48)To filter out what is unique from what is shared might enable us to understand how complex cultural behavior
arose and what guides it in evolutionary or cognitive terms.
.That, at least, is the hope. But a comparative study of linguistic traits published online today supplies a reality
check. Russell Gray at the University of Auckland and his colleagues consider the evolution of grammars in the light of
two previous attempts to find universality in language.
The most famous of these efforts was initiated by Noam Chomsky, who suggested that humans are born with an
innate language—acquisition capacity that dictates a universal grammar. A few generative rules are then sufficient to
unfold the entire fundamental structure of a language, which is why children can learn it so quickly.
(49)The second, by Joshua Greenberg, takes a more empirical approach to universality identifying traits
(particularly in word order) shared by many language which are considered to represent biases that result fro
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