if we can't think what system it belongs to, that's tantamount to saying we really don't know what it is.

我们就不知道它从属于哪个符号系统，我们就不能认识它了。

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I can touch it, I'm not controlling it, it doesn't recognize me and say, "Hey Steve, stop beating on me."

我能够摸它，却不能控制它，它不可能认识我，还说“别打我了史蒂夫“

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I mean, there is an emptying out of positive meaning in the very awareness that, after all, the red light could mean "go" I'm about to go on and give more examples.

这就事我们不能主动赋予符号意义,但是是要认识到，红灯也有表示，出发，的意思“,我会用更多例子来说明它。

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East Texas is right and now he's punching cows," and that was exactly right, and still I couldn't believe Gene could really have known Slim whom I have been looking for more or less for years.

是在得克萨斯州的东部，但现在他在放牛“,“这可真是太巧了“，但我仍然不能相信,吉恩真的认识细杆，这几年来我一直在找他。

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So, in terms of what it is that you need to prepare and bring with you for the exam, you need to bring your MIT ID, especially if you haven't been showing up regularly to your recitations and you aren't 100% sure if your TA knows exactly who you are, you need to make sure you have your MIT ID with you.

那么，关于你需要做哪些准备,考试可以带哪些东西，你需要带着你的学生证，尤其是如果你没有经常地参加,习题课,你不能百分之百保证,你的助教确实认识你，那么你更得确保自己到时带着学生证。

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I can't know it because it just is that sign.

我们不能自然的认识符号。

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I don't know it positively. I'm about to give an example of this which I hope will flesh out what I'm trying to get across; let's look at a couple of passages in Saussure that may make the point.

不能主动地认识,更具体地举例来说;,我们来看看索绪尔是怎么论述这一点的。

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Now in a stoplight, it only has three, one is tempted to say, variables plainly differing from each other: red, yellow and green we have two ways of thinking about the red light.

交通灯，三种灯，红黄绿，它们的颜色和彼此不能,我们有两种方式认识红灯的意思。

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