It allows for this map between a symbol, say a spoken word, and any sort of thought we want to use.

语言允许在符号,比如说出的一个词,与我们想要使用的任何想法之间,存在着这种映射关系

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That's not meant to be a bad word but suggests being influenced, one might say, in the sense of "open the window and influenza," by those signs that precede it.

这不是个不好的词，只是想要表达影响的意思，人们可能说将一个符号之前的符号称作是“,“打开了窗户，引发了流感“

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