One of the greatest achievements of the human race is our development of languages. Over thousands of years, humans have created more than seven thousand languages. Many of these languages are very different from one another, but there is an experiment that shows how different languages can still share some basic connections. The Bouba-Kiki experiment was first carried out in 2001. In the experiment, participants are shown two abstract line drawings. One of them has rounded edges, and the other has spiky corners.
人类最伟大的成就之一是语言的发展。数千年来，人类创造了七千多种语言。其中许多语言彼此之间有显著的差异，但有一个研究显示，不同语言仍可以共享一些基本的关联。波巴奇奇实验首次于 2001 年进行。在实验中，参与者被展示两张抽象的线条图。其中一张有圆角，另一张则有尖角。
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achievement n. 成就
be different from... 和……不同
experiment n. 实验
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