In any case, the tension between denotation and connotation is part of the way in which irony works.

在任何情况下，讽刺的作用,都是表达了符号和涵义之间的张力。

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How do we start to make a connection between what we hear and what things mean?

我们怎么能把我们听到的和它们的涵义,联系起来？

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It's true for any gas, and if I remove this limit here, r t is equal to p v bar, I'm going to call that an ideal gas.

这样的气体被称作理想气体,这就是理想气体的性质，理想气体的涵义是什么？

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The connotation, I have suggested, is of the variety of kinds that one might gingerly approach in thinking about complicating the texture of the story.

而深层的涵义，我认为，认真考虑的人,会有各种,不同的解读。

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For those who are already engrossed in the reading of Ulysses, as well as for those who hesitate to begin it because they fear that it is obscure, the publishers offer this simple clue as to what the critical fuss is all about.

针对那些已经完全沉浸于这本书的人，以及那些因为害怕内容晦涩而还犹豫不决的人,出版商提供了一些简单的线索,告诉大家这部伟大之作的简要涵义。

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Now there is an irony there, because without the myth, we lose out on a great many worth to survive With myth, taken literally, we are self-fullfilling the past.

现在又多了一层讽刺的涵义，因为没了神话，很多人会觉得失去了活下去的价值,而要是我们按字面意思理解神话，我们就能填补过去的空白。

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It's writing everything we know and what it means.

写出我们知道的东西，以及它们的涵义。

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