It is important to be clear about what Chomsky is doing here.

明确乔姆斯基在这干什么很重要。

Because young children can make sentences they have never heard before, Chomsky suggested that human infants are born with the ability to learn language.

由于小孩子可以造出他们从未听过的句子，乔姆斯基认为人类婴儿天生就有学习语言的能力。

And Chomsky makes this radical claim.

乔姆斯基提出了这个激进的观点。

Chomsky: I don't think so; neither do I hope so.

乔姆斯基：我不这样认为，也不希望这样。

Well, Chomsky says the problem is not that that's wrong.

乔姆斯基认为,问题并不在于这些观点是错误的。

And indeed Chomsky cannot be written off as another regime loyalist.

的确乔姆斯基不是保皇党。

Much as I admire Noam Chomsky, I'm afraid he's very wrong here.

虽然我很钦佩诺姆·乔姆斯基，但我恐怕他在这个问题上是完全错误的。

But linguists such as Noam Chomsky were highly critical of the research.

但包括诺姆·乔姆斯基(Noam Chomsky)在内的语言学家却对上述研究提出了强烈批评。

Prof Chomsky said that mature humans usually knew tens of thousands of words.

乔姆斯基教授表示，成年人通常认识数万单词。

This idea, put forward by Noam Chomsky in the 1960s, is no longer unchallenged.

20世纪60年代语言学家诺姆·乔姆斯基提出的这一观点，目前受到了质疑。

Over the past 60 years, Mr Chomsky has repeatedly stripped down his theory.

在过去的60年中，乔姆斯基不断地在精简自己的理论。

What Skinner--What Chomsky is raising here is the concern of unfalsifiablity.

乔姆斯基在这里提出了，对不可证伪性的质疑。

American linguist Chomsky in the late 90's to become the present living paper cited the most often.

美国语言学家乔姆斯基在上世纪90年代就成了目前健在的论文被引用次数最多的人。

Mr Chomsky says those who disagree with his ever-more contentious ideas are either blind or hucksters.

乔姆斯基表示，那些不同意他曾更具争议的想法的人都是瞎子或是跳梁小丑。

Hint: the corporations exert influence over all of our information sources. Another hint: read Chomsky.

提示：是企业操控我们所有信息的影响力嘛？

"Universal grammar" theory is the core of Chomsky grammar theories, and it is a challenge to the traditional sense.

“普遍语法”是乔姆斯基语法理论的核心，是对传统观念的一种挑战。

Chomsky attempts to account for this aspect of syntax by postulating that there are deep structures and surface structures.

乔姆斯基企图占这方面的语法通过假定有深刻的结构和表面结构。

MIT linguist Noam Chomsky asserted that the way children acquire language is so effortless that it must have a biological foundation.

麻省理工的语言学家诺曼·乔姆斯基断言，由于儿童学习语言的方式如此轻松，因此必定有其生物基础。

I got riled up by "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" and "The Chomsky Reader"; Heidi read aloud passages from "The Anxiety of Influence."

《马尔科姆•X自传》和《乔姆斯基读者》看得我热血沸腾，海蒂则大声朗读《影响的焦虑》。

Chomsky claims that the language faculty in human brain is universal grammar, a biological endowment and blueprint for language acquisition.

乔姆斯基认为人脑中的语言官能就是普遍语法，是人的生物禀赋、语言习得的蓝图。

So, you might learn to play baseball, you might learn about the American Civil War, but if Chomsky is right you didn't learn to speak English.

因此，你可能学会打棒球，学到关于美国内战的知识，但如果乔姆斯基是对的，那么说英语并不是习得的。