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Pinker convincingly demonstrates that there has been a dramatic decline in violence, and he is persuasive about the causes of that decline.

Pinker令人信服地向我们展示了暴力行为大幅下降的趋势，其列出的原因也是有说服力的。

Jerry Fodor and Steven Pinker suggest that this fact may be a result of how our minds work. .

杰瑞福多和史蒂芬品克建议说，这可能是由我们大脑的工作模式引起的。

No doubt there will also be roars of approval for Mr Pinker's new book, "The Stuff of Thought" .

那么，品氏的最新力作——《思想这玩意儿》也毫无疑问会让人拍掌叫好。

Linguist Steven Pinker questions the very nature of our thoughts -- the way we use words, how we learn, and how we relate to others.

语言学家StevenPinker致力于探索我们真实的思想本质——我们的用词方式、我们的学习方式以及我们如何与他人有交点。

In each of his nine chapters Mr Pinker looks at a different aspect of how we put our thoughts and feelings into words.

全书共分九章。在每一章，作者分别从不同角度，阐释我们如何用语言表达各类思想感情。

A few months ago, Steven Pinker of Harvard asked a smart question: What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?

数月前，哈佛大学的史蒂芬·平克（StevenPinker）奇思突发：究竟何种科学观能够提高人的认知能力？

Professor Pinker had a choice of ongoing conflicts while he worked on his book: in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Sudan.

平克教授在他的书中精选了几个冲突案例：伊拉克战争、阿富汗战争、斯里兰卡动乱和苏丹动乱。

Pinker is an optimist, but he knows that there is no guarantee that the trends he has documented will continue.

Pinker是位乐观主义者，但是他知道无法保证目前的趋势仍将继续。

An evolutionary psychologist who works on cognition and language at Harvard, Professor Pinker writes like a modern Whig.

平克教授是一位在哈弗从事认知及语言工作的进化心理学家，他以一位现代共和党的身份写作。

Pinker assumes that many of his readers will be skeptical of this claim, so he spends six substantial chapters documenting it.

也许许多读者对这个论点心存怀疑，所以pinker花了6个章节的篇幅来进行说明。

The empowerment of women does, Pinker argues, exercise a pacifying influence, and the world would be more peaceful if women were in charge.

Pinker认为，妇女权力的扩大产生了和平化影响，如果妇女掌管世界，世界将更加和平。

In seeking answers to these questions Pinker draws on recent research in history, psychology, cognitive science, economics and sociology.

为了回答这些问题，pinker吸收了近来历史学、心理学、认知学、经济学和社会学方面的研究成果。

Although humanity can "easily backslide into war, " Pinker concludes, "the forces of modernity are making things better and better. "

平克的结论是：人类虽然很容易重蹈战争覆辙，但是“现代化力量促使形势不断向好的方面转化”。

Several years ago, as a Harvard faculty member, I audited an introductory psychology course taught by Steven Pinker.

几年前，作为哈佛大学校务委员会的一员，我旁听了史蒂芬·平克（StevenPinker）教授的心理学导论课。

For reason does, Pinker holds, point to a particular kind of morality.

Pinker认为，理性确实导致一种特别的道德准则。

PINKER: Regarding bias: as I mentioned at the outset, I don't doubt that bias exists.

关于偏见：正如我上面所说的那样，一开始，我不怀疑偏见的存在。

So don't the trends that Pinker chronicles prove that our nature is more the product of our culture than our biology?

所以难道不是这一趋势证明了人类本性更多取决于文化而不是我们的生物特性？

Harvard University brain expert Steven Pinker is another author of the study. A report on the work appeared in the journal Science.

哈佛大学的脑科专家史蒂文•平克是另一个研究作者，研究刊登在《科学》杂志上。

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature By Steven Pinker.

《思想这玩意儿：语言乃探析人性之窗》作者斯蒂文.品克

Pinker begins with studies of the causes of death in different eras and peoples.

pinker首先谈到的是对不同时代、不同人种的死因的研究。