This does seem to suggest color categories are wired fairly deep in our brains.

这似乎表明，颜色类别在我们的大脑中根深蒂固。

This seemed to suggest that color categories were innate — and it was a cool, elegant theory!

这似乎表明，颜色类别是天生的，这是一个炫酷的理论！

In fact, one of their color categories clumps some types of blue and green together, while they have other color categories for different greens still.

事实上，他们有一个颜色类别是将一些类型的蓝色和绿色聚集在一起，而他们仍然有不同的关于绿色的类别。

Ancient Greek had very few color categories while modern Greek has many.

古希腊语的颜色类别很少，而现代希腊语的颜色类别很多。

But some have lost color categories.

但有些已经失去了颜色类别。

That’s because not all languages have the same number of basic color categories.

这是因为并非所有语言都具有相同数量的基本颜色类别。

If a language has only two basic color categories, they are dark and light.

如果一种语言只有两种基本颜色类别，那就是深色和浅色。

They looked at the languages of various cultures and came to the conclusion that there are a limited number of basic color categories.

他们研究了不同文化的语言，得出的结论是，基本颜色类别的数量有限。

Most aboriginal Australian languages also have added new basic color categories over time.

随着时间的推移，大多数澳大利亚原住民语言也增加了新的基本颜色类别。

They found clusters of basic terms around certain shades, suggesting that black, white, red, yellow, and green-slash-blue may actually be universal color categories.

他们发现，围绕某些色调，存在一系列的基本术语，这表明黑色、白色、红色、黄色、绿色、绿蓝色，实际上可能是通用的颜色类别。

Also, languages can add more basic color categories, if needed.

此外，如果需要，语言可以添加更多基本颜色类别。

Interestingly enough, these color categories also match up with the six colors central to what's known as the opponent-process theory of color vision.

有趣的是，这些颜色类别也与六种颜色相匹配，这六种颜色是所谓的颜色视觉的补偿反应理论的核心。

But most of them belong to just a few color categories.

但其中大多数只属于少数颜色类别。

You can't study someone who already knows the names of colors if you're trying to see if color categories are innate.

如果你想知道颜色类别是否与生俱来，就不能研究那些已经知道颜色名称的人。

And there is some reason to believe that it might apply when it comes to colors… but there's also reason to believe that color categories might be innate.

有理由相信，它可能适用于颜色。但也有理由相信，颜色类别可能是天生的。

Similarly, when asked to learn to divide a set of colors into blue vs. green or wor vs. nol, speakers were better at the task that used the color category in their own language.

同样地，当被要求学习将一组颜色分成蓝色与绿色，或 wor 与 nol 时，说话者在使用自己语言的颜色类别时表现得更好。

But among scientists, there's a lot of debate about whether we're born with those color categories wired into our brains — or whether, by starting to name colors, we shaped how we see them.

但在科学家中，有很多争论是关于我们是否天生就有这些颜色类别连接到我们的大脑中，还是我们通过命名颜色来塑造我们对它们的看法。

And in the end, it probably doesn't really matter to most of us in our day-to-day lives whether color categories are an actual thing or a thing brought about by how our language shapes our perception.

最后，在我们日常生活中，颜色类别究竟是真实存在的东西，还是由我们的语言形成的感知所产生的东西，对我们大多数人来说，这可能并不重要。