求教新概念英语第四册上的一句话：JohnDeweyhassaidinallseriousnessthatthepartplayedbycustominshapingthebehaviouroftheindividual,asagainstanywayinwhichhecanaffecttraditionalcustom,isastheproportionofthe

Question

求教新概念英语第四册上的一句话：
John Dewey has said in all seriousness that the part played by custom in shaping the behaviour of the individual,as against any way in which he can affect traditional custom,is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the vernacular of his family
（可以直译,也可以意译）

Answer 1

John Dewey曾毫不开玩笑的说,习俗对一个人的影响所占的比重远大于其对习俗本身的影响,也就是说,是一个人的母语词汇量决定了他是这国人,而不是他在家里使用的那些零散的"咿呀学语"的单词. 这是我看过的版本里面比较厉害的翻译了