They make laws but the laws are not binding on anyone, they're just suggested laws or regulations.

他们编制法规,但是却没有强制意义,他们只是对法规或者监管进行建议

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That's the crucial thing: if they're not willing, the use of the sign doesn't work, which confirms the idea that nothing can be changed simply by individual agency in and of itself.

这很关键：,如果他们自己不愿意使用，符号就没有意义，这也就应证了我们的观点,没有人能单独改变一个群体符号的使用方式。

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There's other disorders of language such as receptive aphasia where the person could speak very fluently but the words don't make any sense and they can't understand anybody else.

还有其他的语言障碍,诸如,接收性失语症,患有这种病的病人,语言流畅,但所讲话语没有任何意义,而他们也无法理解别人的话语

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Well, you should be absolutely unexcited because it doesn't mean anything; if they were giving you extra shares and just you alone, that would be great--that would be good.

你根本不应该感到高兴,因为这没有什么意义,如果他们只给你一人发放股票,这就是件好事

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It may mean something different and this is sort of just stupid re-use of syntax although frankly it wouldn't really be much fun to have yet a symbol so they went with the same symbol which is pretty reasonable in the context *a of a function prototype this just means *a expect A to be the address of an int and expect B to be the address of an int.

这里的意思有点不同,这是为了重使用的目的,虽然这个符号没有什么意义,所以在函数原型中，他们就使用了相同的符号,这只是表示，期望,是一个int型的地址,期望b是一个int型的地址。

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While the New Critics, in a variety of ways, insist that form is meaning, form is content and so on, they're still not really breaking down the distinction between form and content.

新批评主义者们认为，形式就是意义，形式就是内容，但是他们还是没有打破,形式和内容的区别。

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