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在他所著《思想的实质》的独家新书介绍会上，史蒂芬·平克探讨了语言如何表达内心的思想--以及我们的遣词用句中透露出多少鲜为人知的信息。
n. 自负，自大，个人观点，幻想，巧妙的构思
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- This is a picture of Maurice Druon,
- 照片里的人是Maurice Druon
- the Honorary Perpetual Secretary of L'Academie francaise, the French Academy.
- L'Academie francaise的荣誉终身秘书长--也就是法兰西学院
- He is splendidly attired in his 68,000-dollar uniform, befitting the role of the French Academy
- 穿着价值六万八千美元的豪华制服，对法兰西学院来说倒很适合
- as legislating the correct usage in French and perpetuating the language.
- 因为它规范着法语的正确用法，使这门语言永世长存
- The French Academy has two main tasks: it compiles a dictionary of official French.
- 法兰西学院有两个主要任务，它编纂官方的法语词典
- They're now working on their ninth edition, which they began in 1930, and they've reached the letter P.
- 他们目前在编第九部，从1930年就开始了，现在编到了P字头。
- They also legislate on correct usage,
- 他们还规范正确的用法
- such as the proper term for what the French call "email," which ought to be "courriel."
- 比如，电子邮件（email）在法语里的正确说法应该是"courriel"
- The World Wide Web, the French are told, ought to be referred to as
- 他们告诉法国人，万维网应该被叫做
- "la toile d'araignee mondiale" -- the Global Spider Web -- recommendations that the French gaily ignore.
- "la toile d'araignee modiale"--“环球蜘蛛网”--诸如此类法国人民欣然忽略的建议
- Now, this is one model of how language comes to be: namely, it's legislated by an academy.
- 这是语言产生的众多模型之一：也就是说，由一个学院来进行规范
- But anyone who looks at language realizes that this is a rather silly conceit,
- 但任何懂得语言的人都意识到这是愚蠢的自负
- that language, rather, emerges from human minds interacting from one another.
- 语言产生于人类心灵间的互动
- And this is visible in the unstoppable change in language --
- 而在语言的不停变化中，这是显而易见的
- the fact that by the time the Academy finishes their dictionary, it will already be well out of date.
- 事实上，当法兰西学院完成他们的词典时，它早已经过时了。
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