不过他倒是希望这仅仅是因为他们家太穷，掏不起钱买车票，并且识字不多，也写不了多少信。

He hoped, however, that this was only because they were too poor to travel and too uneducated to write.

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艺术家们对摄影很着迷，因为摄影可以让他们更加细致地审视这个世界。

Artists were fascinated by photography because it offered a way of examining the world in much greater detail.

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当时还没有方便的记笔记的工具，早期的希腊演说家演讲很长很准确，因为他们是通过记忆系统来学习演讲的。

There were no convenient devices for taking notes, and early Greek orators delivered long speeches with great accuracy because they learned the speeches using mnemonic systems.

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As I say, there's a certain instability which could never apply in the semiotics of the stoplight because there it's not so much a question of but rather the insistence that the color is just that color.

我承认，颜色的选择有时候是有规律的,但是在语义学上这解释不通,因为他们不考虑,但是语义学家认为颜色只单纯表示颜色。

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