The relation between the speech sounds it's like the relation, as I'm saying, between the boy and the birches.

语言韵律和,就像这种关系，像我说的，像孩子和桦树的关系一样。

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And I'm fascinated by the way that even at that elemental point, the religions come in, and like the Tower Babel confuse our speech.

我还为一件事物着迷,那就是宗教最初产生的时候，就像巴别塔扰乱了我们的语言。

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Just like with a natural language, we're going to separate out syntax versus semantics.

就像自然语言一样，我们要去把语法和语义区分开来。

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