It is not a world in which language can be understood as somehow or another a means of expressing thought.

在索绪尔眼中的世界，语言不能被理解为,表达思想的方式。

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It's halfway up Mount Parnassus and it was thought by the Greeks to be the Omphalos, the navel of the universe, the center in every way. Why?

它坐落在帕尔纳索斯山半山腰上,希腊人称它为Omphalos,是世界之脐,即世界的中心,为什么呢

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