Whether recursion is universal, for example, is contested.

例如，递归是否普遍存在争议。

Similar tribal cultures have languages bristling with recursion.

类似的种族文化里存在着充满了递归式的语言。

Mr Chomsky has argued that “recursion” is the key feature of all human language.

乔姆斯基已经证明“递归”是所有人类语言的关键特征。

This is called the " base case" of the recursion.

这称为递归的“基本情况” 。

And in fact, the lack of recursion is not controversial.

事实上，缺乏递归是没有争议的。

What would prehistoric hunter-gatherers need all these tenses, and clauses, and recursions for?

史前狩猎采集者需要所有这些时态、从句和递归来做什么？

Recursion is when you have a set of instructions that refers back to itself.

称为递归。 递归是当你有一组指令返回自身时。

The author Cal Newport calls this “research recursion syndrome” – you get stuck in a loop of constantly looking for yet another source.

作者卡尔·纽波特称之为“研究递归综合症”——你陷入了一个不断寻找另一个来源的循环。

In the early 2000s, Chomsky suggested that there's just one shared principle, called recursion, which means structures can be nested inside each other.

在 2000 年代初期，乔姆斯基提出只有一个共同原则，称为递归，这意味着结构可以相互嵌套。

This is the embedding of smaller units inside bigger ones: a subordinate clause is a kind of recursion, embedding a sentence in a bigger one.

一个从句是一种递归，把一个句子嵌入更大的句子中。