Well--okay. This has nothing to do with the text, we say, and yet at the same time suppose it did.

其实这和诗本身并没有关系，但是我们假设它和诗是关联的。

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If our estimates are off then the hypothesis makes no sense, so maybe there's no relationship between dietary fat and breast cancer.

如果评估是无关联的,那这个假说也就没有意义,那么在膳食脂肪和乳腺癌之间,也许没有任何关系

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This is what he says in this first passage. He says: If we study speech from several viewpoints simultaneously, the object of linguistics appears to us as a confused mass of heterogeneous and unrelated things.

这也是他在第一篇文章里说的话：,我们同时从几个角度读这篇文章，这时语言学乱的像一锅粥,没有系统毫无关联性。

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