有一段时间，他甚至不能书写自己的名字。

For a while, he could not write his own name.

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如果不能书写(或讲)完美的英文会如何？

So What If You Don't Write (or Speak) Perfect English?

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但是问题是他根本不能书写和阅读。

But the problem was that he could neither write nor read.

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We cannot say writing came into being belatedly with respect to speech in order to reproduce, imitate, or transcribe speech.

我们不能说书写比演讲产生得更晚,是为了复制，模仿，或者是记录下演讲的内容。

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He's just insisting that we cannot understand writing to be derivative.

他只是想说明我们不能将书写理解成为衍生物。

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