"Well, of course chimps must be able to learn language"

"黑猩猩一定可以学习语言"
is because you might be caught in the grips of some bad ideas about language.

是因为你们对语言有一些曲解
So, one idea is you might say,

曲解之一便是你们可能会说
"Look. Chimps should use language because chimps are so smart."

"猩猩很聪明所以应该拥有语言"
But the response to this is,

但对此的反驳是
"They are smart but we know that smart isn't enough."

"它们是聪明但光聪明是不够的"
We know that the human capacity for language

我们清楚人类的语言能力
is not totally a result of smartness.

并不仅仅源于聪慧
There are smart children who,

有些孩子很聪明
due to some deficit in their language capacity,

却因语言能力上的障碍
don't speak or understand a language.

无法掌握或理解一门语言
So, the smartness of chimpanzees does not in itself demonstrate

所以猩猩的聪明本身并不能说明