Now the word "first" begins to take on a much bigger range of significances than we might at first think.

现在看来，“初/先“一词,比我们起先所想的有更加重大的意义。

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Wow" is Dean's word. "Wow" is the kind of word that means nothing, but it suggests the immediacy of Dean's engagement.

哇是迪恩的话，哇这个词可以是没有意义的，但它表示了迪恩的直接参与。

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And those words mean different things: immunogenic means that it stimulates your immune system for a response; pathogenic means that it causes a disease.

这两个词有不同的意义,免疫效应是指,刺激免疫系统产生免疫应答,致病性意指它能使你患病

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But the problem is if you use the word "Language" impossibly, incredibly broadly, then from a scientific point of view it becomes useless to ask interesting questions about it.

但问题是,如果你无限宽泛地使用"语言"一词,那么从科学的角度来看,探究语言就变得毫无意义了

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What could be more prosaic than "It is raining?" All of a sudden you notice that string of "i's." You notice all kinds of other things about it.

最基本的意思就是“在下雨“，但是你注意到,“i’s“这个词，你注意到它的相关意义。

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We're going to use this special word "Antigen," and antigen has a very particular meaning.

我们将用到抗原这个特别的词,抗原有其独特意义

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