They don't legislate compassion. It's likely that these were considered acts of, who knows, personal conscience, religious conviction, something that was between the individual and society and their God.

也没有给同情立法，这可能是由于人们认为这些行为,只关乎个人良知，宗教信念或者是，介于个人，社会和上帝之间的某一事物。

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Its direct relationship with the thing that's most closely adjacent to it somehow either through similarity or dissimilarity can never be a relationship of identity.

符号和实物之间的关系,即使是最接近的事物,是通过相似处和不同处建立的,但是这不是一种永恒的关系。

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And from a behaviorist point of view this is because of the associative history of these things.

在行为主义者看来,这是在这些事物之间的联结历史造成的。

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In the meantime, what Saussure is doing with this relationship above and below the line is, he is saying that there is an arbitrary relationship between the concept and the sound image.

同时，索绪尔觉得这组关系,也就是线上和线下的这个组合，他说，这是一个任意的组合,在事物和声音形象之间。

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It is a declaration of absolute interdependency among the things that we understand in binary terms but that we take somehow one to be causative of the other when we think about them.

这是在宣布事物之间的绝对的相互性,我们能在二元关系上理解这些事,但是我们惯常于把一个是当成另一个的原因。

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