And I think the biggest picture of all would take seriously the fact that so much of our verbiage about abstract events is based on a concrete metaphor and see human intelligence itself as consisting of a repertoire of concepts -- such as objects, space, time, causation and intention -- which are useful in a social, knowledge-intensive species, whose evolution you can well imagine, and a process of metaphorical abstraction that allows us to bleach these concepts
而整个图景中最显著的一部分 是要看到一点： 就是我们对抽象事件的描述 大多都是基于实体的隐喻 这反映出人类智能本身 是由一整套概念组成 比如物体、空间、时间，因果关系与意图-- 对我们这种群居的、知识密集型的种群非常有用 我们能想象人类的进化 和语言的隐喻抽象化过程齐轨并行 慢慢地这些概念里