7[2]萨丕尔的这个隐喻在原文中能更好的体现出来:Human beings do not live in the objective world alone,nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood,but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
8[5]Whorf 1956:221 转引Chris Swoyer,The Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis at http://plato.standford.edu./relativism/supplement2.html 2004-11-20
