In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.
Frustrated with the European languages, which he considered "too boring", Christopher Columbus invented "Columbian", a language so complicated that only he could speak it.
This might lead us to believe that a simple culture would make use of a simple language, that a complex culture would make use of a complex language, and so on.
Computers are capable of doing very complicated work in a split second.
コンピューターは非常に複雑な仕事を瞬時にすることができる。
Those four words carried not only a lot of complex information, but also the persuasive force of a proverb.
この４語はたくさんの複雑な情報を伝えるばかりでなく、諺の持つ説得力もあるのである。
This child solved the complicated mathematics problem easily.
この子は複雑な数学の問題を簡単に解いた。
I have mixed feelings about this.
これには複雑な気持ちだ。
The explanation may be much more complex.
その説明は、もっとはるかに複雑なものかもしれない。
We've run out of paper for the photocopier.
複写機の紙を切らしたよ。
Life today is fast-moving and complex.
今日の生活はめまぐるしく変わり複雑である。
I can see some intricate patterns in the picture.
その絵には複雑な模様が見える。
The plants manufacture complex chemical compounds.
工場では複雑な化学化合物を製造している。
This form looks kind of complicated. Help me fill it out.
この書式はやや複雑そうだ。書きこむのを手伝ってくれ。
Modern finance is becoming increasingly complicated and sophisticated.
現代の金融は一段と複雑かつ高度になってきている。
Math is like love - a simple idea, but it can get complicated.
数学は恋のようだ。単純だけど複雑にもなりうる。
And though a web looks complicated, it takes a spider little time to make one and catch insects.
巣は複雑そうに見えるが、クモが巣を作って昆虫を捕るのに時間はほとんどかからない。
When we say that a language is culturally transmitted - that is, that it is learned rather than inherited - we mean that it is part of that whole complex of learned and shared behavior that anthropologists call culture.
He came up with a terrific solution to the complex problem.
彼はその複雑な問題を解決するすばらしい方法を思いついた。
How complex is it?
どのぐらい複雑なのだろうか。
That made the problem all the more complicated.
そのために問題はますます複雑になった。
The mechanism of this machine is complicated.
この機械のメカニズムは複雑です。
There are so-called primitive cultures in the jungles of the Amazon and on the island of New Guinea, and there are so-called advanced cultures in Europe, Asia, and Africa, but the languages of these cultures are all equally advanced and complex.
There are complicated circumstances behind the matter.
その問題の裏には複雑な状況がある。
The social problems of the day tend to be more and more complicated.
現代の社会問題はますます複雑化する傾向がある。
In Esperanto, nouns end with "o". Plurals are formed with the addition of "j".
エスペラント語では、名詞は「o」で終わります。複数形は「j」をつけることで表されます。
In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.
