【Abstract】One long-standing claim concerning the relationship between language and culture of a language is that languages determine the way speakers of that language view the world. This is what the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis claims. However， it is too absolute from the view of language and world view and second language acquisition.
　　【Key words】Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis； language and world view； second language acquisition
　　1. Question
　　The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis has two versions. The strong version emphasizes the decisive role of language as the shaper of our thinking patterns. The weak version suggests the correlation between language， culture， and thought， but the cross-cultural differences thus produced in our ways of thinking are relative， rather than categorical（Hu