What is language for?

语言到底是什么？

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First, we should make clear one problem: what is language for?

首先我们要弄清楚一个问题：语言用来干什么的？

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What is language for? Language is for the exchange of ideas, for communication.

语言到底是用来干什么的呢？语言是用来交换思想，进行交流沟通的！

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Rather, it is another kind of language that he represents that will be that kind of germ of what Sal is looking for.

相反，是代表他自己的另一种语言,倒还有一点大师的意思。

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In the first passage, the statement about language by criticism, that sign and meaning can never coincide, is what is precisely taken for granted in the kind of language we call "literary."

在第一段，关于语言的主张，用批判的方式，认为符号和意思永远不能相矛盾，正是这个主张,被人们认为是理所当然的，对于我们所说的文学语言来说“

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His desire for the intellectual download from Chad is not what's going to make him the figure of the new language for Sal.

他渴望从乍得那里像下载一样地获得的知识,并不会使他成为新的语言大师。

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"Whilst any use of racist language is abhorrent, what is reassuring for me is that in the 10 cases that have been referred to the IPCC, six involve other officers who have stood up and raised concerns, showing that we are an organization that will not stand for any racist behavior, " he said.

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What I'm trying to do with my music style is identify what has been overlooked for so many centuries in classical music, is our native language.

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"It is a language for figuring out what gets in the way of change and progress, " says Todd Pierce, former CIO of biotechnology company Genentech, who says it helped his management team resolve core issues in a matter of hours.

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