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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But there were more formulated ways of capturing that experience in language.

但还有更明确的方式来表达,在语言中捕捉体验。

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The point, though, is that from the physicalist perspective, the best thing to say is, talk about a mind is a way of talking about these various mental abilities of the body.

从物理主义的角度出发,用最确切的语言加以表达,心灵是表述,肉体各种精神能力的方式

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So there is a kind of grammar of race that this boy is learning while he experiences language in all these other more visceral, family-oriented ways.

更直接地谈下去会有危险时,这男孩在学习地区或者种族语言,特有的表达方式，同时他的家庭影响也塑造着他的语言。

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