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huì shàng hái qiángdiào ，jìxù yǒuxiào huàjiě gèlèi jīnróng fēngxiǎn ，jì yào fángfàn huàjiě cúnliàng fēngxiǎn ，yě yào fángfàn gèzhǒng “hēitiāné shìjiàn ，bǎochí gǔshì 、zhàishì huìshì píngwěn jiànkāng fāzhǎn 。

The meeting also stressed that in order to continue to effectively resolve various types of financial risks, it is necessary to not only resolve existing risks, but also to guard against various black swan events, and maintain a stable and healthy stock and bond market.

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你说对了！历史上，国际有许多港口城市也曾因其地理位置优越而发展起来，但随着经济、社会、科技的发展推移，今时今日，人才汇聚及产业群聚才是推动城市持续发展的关键因素。

Nǐ shuō duì le ！Lìshǐ shàng ，guójì yǒu xǔduō gǎngkǒuchéngshì yě céng yīn qí dìlǐwèizhi yōuyuè ér fāzhǎn qilai ，dàn suízhe jīngjì 、shèhuì 、kējì de fāzhǎn tuīyí ，jīnshí jīnrì ，réncái huìjù jí chǎnyè qúnjù cái shì tuīdòng chéngshì chíxù fāzhǎn de guānjiàn yīnsù 。

Yes, you are absolutely correct! Historically coastal cities have flourished as a result of their geographic position. With the passing of time, economic expansion, social and technology advances, today, greater collaboration and coordination of financial, material and human resources (clustering effect) are the critical factors for further growth of cities.

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开放包容。古丝绸之路跨越尼罗河流域、底格里斯河和幼发拉底河流域、印度河和恒河流域、黄河和长江流域，跨越埃及文明、巴比伦文明、印度文明、中华文明的发祥地，跨越佛教、基督教、伊斯兰教信众的汇集地，跨越不同国度和肤色人民的聚居地。

kāifàng bāoróng 。gǔ SīchóuzhīLù kuàyuè NíluóHé liúyù 、DǐgélǐsīHé hé YòufālādǐHé liúyù 、YìndùHé hé HéngHé liúyù 、HuángHé hé Chángjiāngliúyù ，kuàyuè Āijí wénmíng 、Bābǐlún wénmíng 、Yìndù wénmíng 、Zhōnghuá wénmíng de fāxiángdì ，kuàyuè Fójiào 、Jīdūjiào 、Yīsīlánjiào xìnzhòng de huìjí de ，kuàyuè bùtóng guódù hé fūsè rénmín de jùjūdì 。

Openness and Tolerance. The old Silk Road spanned the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates river basins, the Indus and the Ganges river basins, the Yellow river and the Yangtze river deltas, spanning the cradle of the Egyptian, Babylonian, Indian and Chinese civilizations, the gathering places for Buddhists, Christians and Muslims, different nations and the homelands of people of different skin colors.

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老师，您的专业是词汇学，您也一直强调词汇的重要性，可是我很困惑，根据我自己的学习经验，明明积累了一大堆的单词，语言能力也并没有因此显著提高，很多期刊文章仍然看不懂。

lǎoshī ，nín de zhuānyè shì cíhuìxué ，nín yě yīzhí qiángdiào cíhuì de zhòngyàoxìng ，kěshì wǒ hěn kùnhuò ，gēnjù wǒ zìjǐ de xuéxí jīngyàn ，míngmíng jīlěi le yīdàduī de dāncí ，yǔyán nénglì yě bìng méiyǒu yīncǐ xiǎnzhù tígāo ，hěn duō qīkān wénzhāng réngrán kànbudǒng 。

Sir, your specialism is lexicology, and you always underline the importance of lexicon, but I'm confused. According to my own learning experience, I've accumulated a large vocabulary, but my language ability has not improved noticeably as a result. There are still a lot of journal articles that I can't understand.

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你的困惑也是大部分学习者的困惑，这么说吧，在学习一门语言之前，真正理解词汇在语言当中的地位是很重要的，它甚至可以完全改变你对语言学习的理解和看法。

nǐ de kùnhuò yě shì dàbùfēn xuéxízhě de kùnhuò ，zhèmeshuō ba ，zài xuéxí yī mén yǔyán zhīqián ，zhēnzhèng lǐjiě cíhuì zài yǔyán dāngzhōng de dìwèi shì hěn zhòngyào de ，tā shènzhì kěyǐ wánquán gǎibiàn nǐ duì yǔyán xuéxí de lǐjiě hé kànfǎ 。

Your confusion is a confusion for a majority of students too. Put it this way. Before learning a language, really understanding the role of words in language is very important. It can even completely change your understanding and view of language.

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学界关于语言要素的地位的争论众说纷纭，既然您的见解是“词汇就是一门语言的一切”，那要如何正确理解这句话呢？

xuéjiè guānyú yǔyán yàosù de dìwèi de zhēnglùn zhòngshuōfēnyún ，jìrán nín de jiànjiě shì “cíhuì jiùshì yī mén yǔyán de yīqiè ”，nà yào rúhé zhèngquè lǐjiě zhè jù huà ne ？

There are many different contesting schools of opinion on the role of language. Even if your interpretation is "vocabulary is everything in a language", then how do you go about interpreting this sentence correctly?

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好，那么首先我们先要来认识这样一个概念，那就是词汇是语言的信息库，根据乔姆斯基的词库理论，词库就是大脑内的一部字典、一个储存库。

hǎo ，nàme shǒuxiān wǒmen xiān yàolái rènshi zhèyàng yī gè gàiniàn ，nà jiùshì cíhuì shì yǔyán de xìnxīkù ，gēnjù Qiáomǔsījī de cíkù lǐlùn ，cíkù jiùshì dànǎo nèi de yī bù zìdiǎn 、yī gè chǔcúnkù 。

OK. So first of all we have to understand a concept. The concept that vocabulary is the repository of a language. According to Noam Chomsky's theory lexicon, the lexicon is the brain's internal dictionary, a repository.

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是的，人人都有自己的词库系统，这个系统里，包含着我们通过习得或学习而来的每个词汇的所有信息，包括某个词汇的文化、意义、发音、以及可搭配的词语等等。

shì de ，rénrén dōu yǒu zìjǐ de cíkù xìtǒng ，zhè ge xìtǒng lǐ ，bāohán zhe wǒmen tōngguò xídé huò xuéxí ér lái de měige cíhuì de suǒyǒu xìnxī ，bāokuò mǒuge cíhuì de wénhuà 、yìyì 、fāyīn 、yǐjí kě dāpèi de cíyǔ děngdeng 。

Yes, everyone has their own lexicon system. This system includes all the data on words we acquire or learn, including the culture, meaning, pronunciation of a word and other words and expressions that go with it, and so on.

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孺子可教也！是的，“词”本身，在我们的大脑里，只是信息模块的载体，每个词背后所提供的信息量是相当大的，而“词汇是语言的一切”这一说法，就是咱们语言学的泰山北斗乔姆斯基在八十年代提出的。

rúzǐkějiāo yě ！shì de ，“cí ”běnshēn ，zài wǒmen de dànǎo lǐ ，zhǐshì xìnxī mókuài de zàitǐ ，měige cí bèihòu suǒ tígōng de xìnxīliàng shì xiāngdāng dà de ，ér “cíhuì shì yǔyán de yīqiè ”zhè yī shuōfa ，jiùshì zánmen yǔyánxué de tàishānběidǒu Qiáomǔsījī zài bāshí niándài tíchū de 。

You're a quick learner! Yes, words themselves, in our brains, are simply carriers of modules of data. The amount of data behind each word is quite substantial, and the saying "vocabulary is everything in language", was proposed by the giant of the linguistics field, Noam Chomsky, back in the 1980s.

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这样看来通过词汇就可以将信息有逻辑的链接起来，所以词语和词语之间也不是孤立的，相反它们本身就蕴含了大量信息。所以词汇真的可说是语言的一切了。

zhèyàng kànlai tōngguò cíhuì jiù kěyǐ jiāng xìnxī yǒu luóji de liànjiē qǐlái ，suǒyǐ cíyǔ hé cíyǔ zhījiān yě bù shì gūlì de ，xiāngfǎn tāmen běnshēn jiù yùnhán le dàliàng xìnxī 。suǒyǐ cíhuì zhēnde kě shuō shì yǔyán de yīqiè le 。

So, from this it seems that through the lexicon you can link bits of data together with logic, so individual vocabulary words aren't isolated from one another. On the contrary, they contain a lot of data in themselves. So you really can say that vocabulary is everything in language.

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