Are there universal rules that intelligent species follow?

是否存在着所有智慧生命都遵循的共同法则呢？

It's the only universal rule about women that hasn't got an exception.

这是唯一没有例外的关于女性的普遍规则。

And when you can measure a problem, you can tap into one of the only universal rules of organizational success.

当您可以衡量问题时，您就可以利用组织成功的唯一普遍规则之一。

You evidently don't believe in the maxim: Act so that every one of your actions is capable of being made into a universal rule.

" 有一句格言你显然并不相信：凡人立身行事，务使每一行为堪为万人楷模。"

If you had to constantly translate different algebra codes in your head, this goal of finding universal rules and patterns in math wasn't gonna work.

如果你必须在头脑中不断翻译不同的代数代码，想要在数学中找到通用规则和模式是行不通的。

The passengers, in their peregrinations through the city, had frequently to pay three or four fares; competition was thus the universal rule.

旅客在城里游历时， 常常要付三四张车费。 因此，竞争是普遍规则。

In 2009 two linguists published a widely cited paper called " The myth of language universals" , which seemed to find exceptions to other putatively universal rules.

2009年，两位语言学家发表了一篇被广泛引用的论文，名为《语言普遍性的神话》。

As more linguist data was gathered and analyzed, it became clear that languages around the world differ widely, challenging the theory that there were universal grammar rules.

随着越来越多的语言学家收集和分析数据，很明显世界各地的语言差异很大，这对存在通用语法规则的理论提出了挑战。

In attempts to establish the universal rules of grammar, Chomsky developed an analytical tool known as generative syntax, which represents the order of words in a sentence in hierarchical syntax trees that show what structures are possible.

为了建立通用的语法规则，乔姆斯基开发了一种称为生成句法的分析工具， 它在分层句法树中表示句子中单词的顺序， 显示哪些结构是可能的。