In that case, we understand it as a sequence of cross-sections rather than something that somehow organically changes through time.

这样，我们就是在学习一个个语言的横截面,而不是语言自然的变化过程。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We can break the book of Leviticus down into the units that are listed on that side of the board.

我们将整本《利未记》分成一个个单元来讲,单元表就在那边的板上。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

D-A-V-I-D So when you get a string like D-A-V-I-D, what's really happening is inside your computer's RAM is going a byte where there's some zeros and ones.

譬如你有这么一个字符串，而在你电脑的RAM里将会变成,一个个由0和1组成的字节。

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