They borrow the characters from what had been already something quite close to an alphabet and had only a relatively small number.

他们从十分接近字母系统的书写体系中,借来字符使用,而这些字符相对较少

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He says that the Greeks never invented anything, but everything they borrowed they improved upon.

他说希腊实际上从没有发明什么事物,但是对借来的每一种事物都做出了改进

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We'll say a little bit about Beyond the Pleasure Principle, ; which is the crucial text for our purposes; but plainly apart from the influence of and the ideas borrowed from Freud, you'll find Brooks writing on what for you is pretty familiar turf.

我想花一点点时间说说《超越快乐原则》,这篇文章对于我们今天理解主题至关重要;,但是如果不看从弗洛伊德那里借来的思想和影响外，布鲁克斯所写的对于你们来说应该会很熟悉。

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