楠楠句 day 56

Whorf came to believe in a sort of linguistic determinism which, in its strongest form, states that language imprisons the mind, and that the grammatical patterns in a language can produce far-reaching consequences for the culture of a society.

楠楠自语

Step one：谓语动词came, states, imprisons, can produce

Step two: 连接词which, that, that

句子主干：Whorf came to believe in a sort of linguistic determinism，a sort of 表示某种；which引导一个定语从句修饰linguistic determinism，中间的in its strongest form是插入语，its指代determinism，字面意思为用它最强烈的方式，可以意译为“以最极端的方式”；两个that引导的宾语从句并列，作states的宾语。

【参考译文】

沃尔夫开始相信某种语言决定论的观点，其极端的说法是：语言禁锢思维，一个语言的语法结构能对一个社会的文化产生深远的影响。