And those arbitrary mappings, as we come to learn them, make up the vocabulary of a language.

当我们掌握了这些任意映射时,这些任意映射便组成了某种语言的词汇

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But in any case, this is a well-known term used by Jakobson in this essay which is, like all such terms that somehow wander into other languages, difficult to translate.

但是这个,雅各布森在论文中使用的词汇出名了，并进入了其他语言，而且难以翻译。

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But now, take a more complicated language-- same vocabulary, the same three nouns, the same two verbs, the same sentence, but now one other sentence.

但现在,我们来说一种更加复杂的语言,同样的词汇,同样的三个名词,同样的两个动词,同样的句子,但现在却多了另一个句子

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