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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In Genesis 6 through 9 we seem to have two flood stories with distinctive styles, and themes, and vocabularies, and substantive details, but they're interwoven instead of being placed side by side.

创世纪》6到9章中，似乎又有各个版本的洪水故事,风格，主题，语言，重要的细节都不同,但他们联系紧密，而不能相互取代。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It's quiet, it's warm, Now imagine you're born deaf, you cannot hear, you cannot communicate by spoken words with your friends and family.

四周一片寂静，温暖，再来假设你自幼失聪，不能和家人，朋友用语言交流。

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He isn't yet able or he hasn't yet produced epic speech.

他还不能或没有创作出什么史诗语言。

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- Now that's a slight lie-- or actually in these days of political debates, a slight misspeaking, a wonderful word-- -- it is technically correct. It is enough to allow us to write any program, but it's not enough to allow us to easily write any program.

现在还有点说谎的感觉,或者在这些强调政治辩论的日子中，可以说成是有些词不达意-,这是一个绝妙的形容词,在语义上是完全正确的，用这种语言我们可以编写任何程序,但是不能轻松地编写程序。

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It's not merely that you can't understand it.

不仅是因为你不能理解另外一种语言

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And there is no programming language that is better well actually, that's not quite true, there are some better at doing certain kinds of things but there's nothing that you can do in C that you can't do in Fortran.

没有一种编程语言是更优秀的,当然实际上，这并不是完全对的，在做某些事儿时一些语言会更好用,但是没有事情是你能在C语言中做,而不能在Fortran中做的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选