But if meaning and significance bleed into each other, what I'm going to be doing is establishing a canon, as it were, unconsciously or semiconsciously.

但是意思和意义难以分清，我则会树立起一个顺其自然的标准，无意识地或者是半意识地。

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Then later on, if I wish, I can establish a canon by saying certain texts have certain significance and those are the texts that I care about and want to read, but I can only do that if I can distinguish between meaning and significance.

而后来，如果我希望，我可以通过说什么来树立一个标准,比如说，一些作品有固定意义,因此我只关心只想读那些作品，但是我只有,能够分清意思和意义之后，才能那样做。

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Many laws try to promote the virtue of citizens or try to give expression to the moral values of the society as a whole.

很多法律试图提高公民的品德,或者试图树立,整个社会的道德标准。

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