In other words, language, according to Derrida, in the Saussurian tradition seems to privilege sound over script, over what is graphic.

换句话说，德里达认为，在索绪尔的理论中，音响比文字，更具优势。

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Soon we'll know. First of all, we'd better say, as is already clear from what we've been quoting, language is not quite Saussurian.

我们很快就会知道，首先，从引文中很容易看出，语言不是索绪尔式的。

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In the Mesopotamian stories, for example, the gods act capriciously, the gods act on a whim.

例如，在美索不达米亚的故事中，神肆意妄为，凭着一时的念头做事。

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In the Mesopotamian account, the gods themselves are created ; And they're not even created first, actually; The first generation of beings creates these odd demons and monsters, And gods only are created after several generations Marduk And the god of creation, Marduk, Is actually kind of a latecomer in the picture.

在美索不达米亚的描述中，众神本身也是被创造的,而事实上，他们还不是最先被创造出来的;,是最早的存在创造了那些恶魔和怪兽，而众神是在好几代之后才被创造的,而有创造能力的神是，他在创世的图景中是姗姗来迟的。

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