Attempts to correlate specific language functions with particular parts of the brain have not advanced very far.
试图把特定的语言功能和大脑特定区域相联系的努力还没有取得很大进展。
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When people have to pay for care, they tend to wait until a condition is so faradvanced that treatment is difficult, if not impossible, and the costs are much higher.