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
that they should be able to learn language.

它们应当具有学习语言的能力
You might also point out correctly

或许你会指出另外一个事实
that chimps are our nearest evolutionary relatives,

在进化史上猩猩是人类最近的近亲
which is right, so you--one would expect on the face of it--

这是正确的从这个观点来看你会觉得
it's not unreasonable to expect us to share a lot of abilities with them.

它们很可能同样拥有人类的某些能力
On the other hand,

但从另一方面看