Most linguists would say they were concerned primarily with the structure of languages.

大多数语言学家都会说，他们主要研究各种语言的结构。

On National Linguists and Physical Anthropologists’ Important Contributions to the Research of National Science in Somth West China during the Period of Anti-Japanese War

抗战时期迁居西南的民族语言学家和体质人类学家对民族学研究的重要贡献

Historical linguists posit a common ancestor from which both Romance and Germanic languages descend.Toassume is to accept something as existing or being true without proof or on inconclusive grounds

历史语言学家认为罗斯语系和德语语系由同一种语言演变而来。Assume是指在没有证据或不确定的情况下认为某事是存在的或是真实的

The View of the New Vocabulary Held by China’s Contemporary Linguists

新时期我国语言学者的“新语汇”观

I think that phonological writing should be for the use of linguists only

依我看，音位文字只能留给语言学家使用。

The late Mr. Brown did not attend the international congress of linguists .

已故的布朗先生没有出席那次国际语言学家会议

Linguists theorize about the relationship between the structure of language and the ways in which language is used.

语言学家把语言结构及语言运用方式做理论上的说明。

the jargon of linguists

语言学家的行话.

The linguists ’ main interest has been to analyze and describe languages.

语言学家的主要兴趣一直在于分析并描述语言。

Identifying similar words, linguists have come up with what they call an indo-european parent language, spoken until 3500 to 2000 B. C. These people had common words for snow, beech, bee and wolf but no word for sea

语言学家鉴定了相似文字，发现他们所称的印欧母语一直使用到公元前3500至2000年。讲这种印欧语的人有表示“雪”、“山毛榉”、“蜜蜂”和“狼”的常用词，但没有表示“海”的词。

The linguists went to study tribal languages in the field.

语言学家们去实地研究部落语言了。

The linguists are studying the currency of those slang terms.

语言学家们正在研究那些俚语的流行情况。

The present pamphlet does homage to one of the leading linguists of our times

这本小册子对我们时代的一位优秀语言学家表示敬意。

||1:When MLE first emerged, linguists believed it was a ham version of the way West Indians speak English.||2:In the early 1980s “West Indians who had spoken Cockney suddenly started to speak differently,” explains Paul Kerswill of York University.||3:Young Afro-Caribbean men may have adopted a new style of speech as they sought to forge an identity in an often hostile society.||4:Others were thought to have copied them.

||1:MLE首次出现的时候，语言学家认为这是西印度群岛人群讲英语的一种蹩脚方式。||2:约克大学的保罗克苏威尔解释道，在上世纪80年代初，讲伦敦口音的西印度群岛人群突然开始讲不一样的口音了。||3:年轻的加勒比黑人可能已经接受了一种新的口音，因为他们试图在一个充满歧视的社会里获得一种认可。||4:其他人则被认为是在模仿他们。

||1:For half a century an influential group of Western linguists , led by Noam Chomsky, have argued that language is an innate human faculty, the product of a “language organ” in the mind.||2:Other prominent “innatists” include Steven Pinker, an evolutionary psychologist and author of “The Language Instinct”, and Derek Bickerton, a linguist at the University of Hawaii and developer of a “bioprogramme” theory of language.||3:Innatists believe that all languages share fundamental features.And linguistic innatism is part of a wider debate about just how much of human nature is wired into the brain.

||1:半个世纪以来一个由乔姆斯基领导的西方语言学家的群体已经证实，语言是一种先天的能力，是大脑中“语言器官”的产物。||2:另一个杰出的“先天派”包括进化心理学家、《语言本能》的作者——史蒂夫皮克和夏威夷大学的语言学家、“生物计划”语言理论的创始人——德里克贝克顿。||3:“先天派”认为所有的语言都有共同的基本特点，并且语言天赋论是关于到底有多少人类本性被用于智力运作的宽泛讨论的一部分。

||1:But Mr Everett, in trying to reach a popular audience while making an argument aimed at professional linguists , makes some awkward compromises.||2:He cites a paper by other researchers claiming to have found that there are no features that are common to all languages, an argument that is crucial to his thesis.||3:But he does not give enough detail for the reader.||4:Later he even contradicts himself, saying that all languages have nouns and verbs.

||1:但是当埃弗里特针对语言学家得出结论时，为了争取到受众的欢迎而做了一些笨拙的妥协。||2:他援引其它研究者的论文，声称已经发现了没有所有语言共通的特征，作为他的论文中一个重要的论据。||3:但他并没有向读者展示更多细节。||4:不久后他甚至自相矛盾的说所有语言都是有动词和名词的。

||1:Generations of students considered him the father of structuralism—the theory of underlying order in everything.||2:This annoyed him.||3:He invoked the word in the 1950s mostly in homage to linguists like Roman Jakobson, who had posited binary opposites (voiced and voiceless elements) as the building blocks of language.||4:Thereafter structuralism had become a “vogue”, he thought, “besmirched” by being wrongly applied, and weirdly linking him with thinkers—Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault—with whom he had nothing in common.

||1:列维-斯特劳斯在一代又一代学生的眼中都是“结构主义”（研究万物表面之下隐性秩序的理论）的缔造者，斯特劳斯本人对此很是无可奈何。||2:他在1950年代使用这个词的时候，主要是为了向罗曼·雅各布森（认为语言是由清音和浊音这两种二元对立的元素所构成）一样的语言学家致敬。||3:自那时起，斯特劳斯认为，结构主义便俨然成了一个“时髦的东西”，但却总是被误用或滥用，于是，这个词的纯粹性就受到了“玷污”。||4:令他甚为诧异的是，“结构主义”竟把他和雅克·拉康或是米歇尔·福柯这样的思想家联系到一块儿，他们之间其实毫无共同点。

Japan Inc needs more creative thinkers and linguists . So several firms are courting young Japanese who have been abroad.

日本公司需要更多有创见的思想家和语言家。因此几大企业正觊觎着留学归来的日本学生。

linguists have given us so far a master arbiter like the English writer Henry Watson Fowler. A battle appears won, but the conflict goes on.

Fowler）那样为我们带来权威的英语指导。一场争论似乎已尘埃落定，但矛盾和分歧仍会层出不穷。

Is penmanship considered part of language by linguists ?

笔迹是否也被语言学家认定为一种语言？

Table 1 defines a few of the common terms used by linguists and translation specialists.

表1定义了语言学家和专业翻译人员使用的一些常用术语。

Ultimately, some linguists and computer scientists argue, technology will collapse the world’s language barriers.

部分语言学家和计算机科学家认为，技术终将打破全世界语言障碍的壁垒。

The linguists made the first-ever recordings of Koro, capturing thousands of words during their expedition, which began in 2008.

从2008年开始，在语言学家的考察中，有史以来首次对柯罗语进行录音，并记录下了数千个柯罗语词汇。

A century passed before linguists had a serious change of heart.

从那时起过了一个世纪，语言学家们才开始转变思想。

Most linguists use changes in words or grammatical structures to try to track language evolution.

大部分语言学家通过单词或者语法结构的改变来追踪语言进化的过程。

Indeed, it is accepted wisdom among linguists that once a word actually shows up in a slang dictionary, it effectively ceases to be slang.

的确，我们也从语言学家哪里了解到，当一个词汇确定地出现在俚语词典里了，它也不再是俚语了。

Linguists regard transitions from irregular to regular verb forms as key markers of grammatical change.

对于语言学家来说，动词由不规则向规则过渡正体现了语法的变迁。

To the linguists , change is the only rule to be obeyed.

对语言学家来说，变化是惟一应该遵循的规则。

Moreover, linguists are not sure how Koro has survived this long as a viable language.

而且，语言学家们还不能确定Koro语是如何延续至今而且依然是一门活的语言。

"Facebook" , as a noun, verb or adjective, was popular with younger linguists , said Wayne Glowka, a spokesman for the group.

该组织发言人韦恩·格洛卡说，年轻的语言学家们更青睐Facebook一词，Facebook既可用作名词，也可用作形容词和动词。