1·It is important to be clear about what Chomsky is doing here.
明确乔姆斯基在这干什么很重要。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Dr. Chomsky proposed that there is a universal grammar for all human languages-essentially, that languages don't really differ from one another in significant ways.
乔姆斯基博士认为,人类所有的语言本质上是采用了一种通用的语法,各种语言之间其实并没有 显著的差别。
3·Well, there's a radical claim about the origin of language associated with the guy who we met when we talked about behaviorism who wrote A Review of Verbal Behavior, the linguist Noam Chomsky.
关于语言的起源,语言学家诺姆·乔姆斯基,提出了一个激进的观点,我们曾在讲述行为主义时提到过,他写过篇叫《述评》的论文
4·Take a sentence such as "Sarah Palin read Chomsky's latest book." In Russian, the verb would have to indicate whether the whole book was read or not.
拿“萨拉.佩林读了乔姆斯基最新出的书”来举例,俄语中,动词“读”可以区分她是否读完了全书,土耳其语中,通过动词“读”可以分辨出说这话的人是亲眼目睹的,是被告知的,还是猜的。
5·And indeed Chomsky cannot be written off as another regime loyalist.
的确乔姆斯基不是保皇党。