" She thinks we have lost the way, " he replied stiffly, " and she is rather frightened. You don't think I would send her away all by herself when she is frightened" !

" 她认为我们迷路了，" 他强硬地说，" 而且她很害怕。 你们难道以为我会在她害怕的时候把她一个人打发走吗！"

So if knowledge is " eroding, " that means we are losing knowledge, and of course, by losing these languages, we are losing the way that other cultures think about the world, as expressed through their language.

所以如果知识正在“侵蚀”，那意味着我们正在失去知识，当然，通过失去这些语言，我们正在失去其他文化通过他们的语言表达的思考世界的方式。