The one thing we have, which makes us so different from chimpanzees or other living creatures, is this sophisticated spoken language -- a language with which we can tell children about things that aren't here.
将我们与黑猩猩及其他生物区分开的， 就是我们复杂的口头语言—— 我们用这种语言，可以告诉我们的孩子 那些尚未发生的事情。