万万没想到：英语里表达情绪的词竟然这么少_BEC初级作文

万万没想到：英语里表达情绪的词竟然这么少

While investigating non-English words associated with positive emotions and concepts, a British researcher recently discovered 216 foreign words for which there is no English translation.

英国研究人员最近在调查研究表示正面情感和概念的非英语语言的词汇时发现，有216个词没有对应的英语翻译。

There’s an ongoing debate among scientists about language and its connection to conscious experience. Philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett has said that language “infects and inflects our thought at every level,” arguing that a significant portion of our perception of the world is influenced by the words at our disposal.

科学家一直在争辩语言和意识体验间的关系。哲学家兼认知学家丹尼尔·达内特曾说，语言“影响并且反映我们方方面面的思想”，我们对世界的感知很大程度上受到我们措辞的影响。

Many psychologists, on the other hand, have a hard time believing that humans aren’t capable of grasping a concept or feeling an emotion just because there’s no word for it.

另一方面，许多心理学家很难相信人们会因为语言里没有对应的用语而无法掌握某个概念、不能体验某种情感。

万万没想到：英语里表达情绪的词竟然这么少1

But as University of East London psychologist Tim Lomas points out in his new study, expanded vocabularies have the potential to “enrich our experiences of well-being.”Lomas managed to uncover an astounding 216 psychologically positive “untranslatable words”—words that have no English equivalent.