We need to know not only what are the primitives, but how do we make things meaningful in that language.

我们不仅需要知道什么是基本类型，还要知道我们在那种语言中,怎样使其变得有意义。

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A low-level language, we used to call this assembly programming, you're down at the level of, your primitives are literally moving pieces of data from one location of memory to another, through a very simple operation.

一个低级的语言，我们曾经将其称为假设编程，你们只是处于用基本要素，把一些数据碎片,从记忆存储器的一个地方，通过简单的操作来转到另外一个地方。

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They reject that formalism as an impediment to language's access to the real, and to our access to the real through language.

他们反对形式主义,将其视为语言与现实之间，和我们通过语言，和现实之间的阻碍。

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Again one of the oldest questions of political science very rarely asked by the political science of today that is very skeptical of the language of statesmanship.

再者，其中一个最古老的政治科学问题,今日的政治科学鲜少有人问到的是,政治语言极度深不可测,以其最古老的意义来看。

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Deconstruction calls into question the distinction between language and thought in calling into question the distinction between signifier and signified, even though, as Derrida says, it can't do without a Saussurian vocabulary.

解构主义怀疑,语言和思想的区别，其方式是,怀疑能指和所指之间的区别，尽管如此，正如德里达所说没有索绪尔词汇也是不行的。

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But one of the teaching fellas also passed long to us recently, a little real world example of what happens when you're not mindful of various data types and you're not mindful of the imprecision that's inherent in representing data in a computer, at least using a language like C and low level primitives like floats and even doubles.

最近有个助教告诉我们，一个现实世界中的例子,当你不注意各种各样的数据类型,也不注意在计算机中表示数据时,其内在的不精确性，至少在用像C语言,和float甚至double型数据时，那将会发生什么？

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So, language is this communal set of rumors spiritualized by its very vagueness and shared quality.

因此，语言以其模棱两可的特性,营造出这种精神化的谣传的公社氛围。

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