来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：金融市场 第7集 第7集》

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  --actually it was a psychologist at Princeton told me that,
  但后来一位普林斯顿的心理学家告诉我
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  as a matter of fact,
  确有其事
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  it's proven that there are some people
  已有证据表明 有些语言里
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  whose languages have only those numbers: one, two, and many.
  只有表达1 2和许多这三个概念的数字
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  For example, they're called--in Laos in Thailand,
  比如在老挝 比如在泰国
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  there's a very primitive group of people with primitive technology.
  在那的原始部落 人们仍运用着古代技术
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  I don't mean that they're primitive people
  我不是说他们就是原始人
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  but they only have one, two, and many;
  但他们只用1 2和许多来计数
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  and there are others that have been discovered.
  还有些其他地方也是如此
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  Emotionally we're like that.
  感性点说 我们也差不多如此
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  I used to wonder how could they have only those numbers:
  我曾对他们居然只有这几个数字
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  one, two, and many.
  感到大惑不解