The science of language has large and close analogies in geological science, with its ceaseless evolution, its fossils, and its numberless submerged layers and hidden strata, the infinite go-before of the present.
The science of language has large and close analogies in geological science, with its ceaseless evolution, its fossils, and its numberless submerged layers and hidden strata, the infinite go-before of the present.
语言科学非常近似地质科学，因为它也处于永不停息的发展演变之中，也有自己的化石、有自己无数淹没的岩层和深蔵的地层，以及无穷无尽的过去。