What’s rather interesting to note is the meaning of these words. These words survived for 15,000 years, despite technology, society, religion and so forth changed dramatically. Their value has remained undisturbed for thousands of years.
更值得一提的是这些词语的含义。它们流传了15000年,虽然科技、社会和宗教等方面已经发生了翻天覆地的变化,但上万年来,它们的含义始终未变。
“I was really delighted to see ‘to give’ there,” Pagel said. “Human society is characterized by a degree of cooperation and reciprocity that you simply don’t see in any other animal. Verbs tend to change fairly quickly, but that one hasn’t.”
佩吉称:“看到其中有‘to give(给予)’这个词,我感到非常开心。人类社会的特征就是存在一定程度的合作和互惠,而你在其他任何动物中是看不到这点的。动词在语言中的变化一直很快,但这个单词却始终不变。”
Findings were detailed in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
该研究的详细成果发表在《美国国家科学院院刊》上。
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