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求英语高手帮忙翻译,急.
最好都翻译,实在不行的话,再简短的说出主要意思,谢啦
One of the first great intellectual feats of a young child is learning how to talk, closely followed by learning how to count.
From earliest childhood we are so bound up with our system of numeration that it is a feat of imagination to consider the problems faced by early humans who had not yet developed this facility.
Careful consideration of our system of numeration leads to the conviction that, rather than being a facility that comes naturally to a person, it is one of the great and remarkable achievements of the human race.
It is impossible to learn the sequence of events that led to our developing the concept of number.
Even the earliest of tribes had a system of numeration that, if not advanced, was sufficient for the tasks that they had to perform.
Our ancestors had little use for actual numbers, instead their considerations would have been more of the kind is this enough?
Rather than How many?
When they were engaged in food gathering, for example.
However, when early humans first began to reflect on the nature of things around them, they discovered that they needed an idea of number simply to keep their thoughts in order.
As they began to settle, grow plants and herd animals, the need for a sophisticated number system become paramount.
It will never be known how and when this numeration ability developed, but it is certain that numeration was well developed by the time humans had formed even semi-permanent settlements.
Evidence of early stages of arithmetic and numeration can be readily found.
The indigenous people of Tasmania were only able to count one, two, many, those of South Africa counted one, two, two and one, two twos, two twos and one, and so on.
But in real situations the number and words are often accompanied by gestures to help resolve any confusion.
For example, when using the one, two many type of system, the word many would mean, look at my hands and see how many finger I am showing you.
This basic approach is limited in the range of numbers that it can express, but this range will generally suffice when dealing with the simpler aspects of human existence.
The lack of ability of some cultures to deal with large numbers is not really surprising.
European languages, when traced back to their earlier version, are very poor in number word and expressions.
The ancient Gothic word for ten, tachund, is used to express the number 100 as tachund tachund.
By the seventh century, the word teon had become interchangeable with the tachund or hund of the Anglo-Saxon language, and so 100 was denoted as hund teontig, or ten times ten.
The average person in the seventh century in Europe law a man had to be able to count to nine!
少儿最早的智力壮举之一是学习如何说话,然后是学习如何计数.在童年的早期,我们是如此依赖我们的计数系统,因此对于没有发明这个工具(数字)的早期人类来说,很难想像怎么去判断所面对的问题.仔细考虑我们的计数系统就会觉得它是人类取得的伟大而卓越的成就之一,而不只是与生俱来的工具.我们已无法了解促使我们发明“数字”这个概念的一系列因素.
即便没有先进的计数系统,最早的部落拥有的计数系统也足以应付他们要做的事情.我们的祖先很少使用实际的数字,例如他们采集食物时.他们考虑得比较多的可能是“这个够了吗”而非“是多少”.然而,当早期人类尝试去反映周围的事情时,他们发现他们需要“数字”让他们保持思考的有序性.当他们开始定居、种植庄稼和放牧牲畜时,就迫切需求一个有效的“计数系统”.我们不知道人类的计数能力是如何、何时形成,但可以肯定的是“计数能力”是在人类已形成且半永久定居时得到快速发展.
算术和计算早期阶段的证据很容易找到.塔斯马尼亚州的土著人只能够数到一,二,许多;南非的的土著人可数出一,二,二和一,二二,二二以及一,等等.但在实际生活中往往用这些数字和词加上手势就可去帮助解决迷惑.例如,使用“一,二,许多”系统时,这个“许多”的意思就是“看看我的手,看我伸出几个手指”.这个基本的做法可以表达有限的数字,但处理人类生存中简单的事情这个范围是足够的.有的文化缺乏处理大的数字的能力,这是不足为奇的.较早版本的欧洲语言就非常缺乏关于数字的词语和表达方式.古老的哥特式字“tachund”表示10,“tachund tachund”表示100.到了七世纪,“teon”这个词已可与“tachund”或盎格鲁撒克逊语中的“hund”互换,所以100可写为“hund teontig”或“10倍10”.七世纪欧洲的普通人能数到九才称得上男人!