Its direct relationship with the thing that's most closely adjacent to it somehow either through similarity or dissimilarity can never be a relationship of identity.

符号和实物之间的关系,即使是最接近的事物,是通过相似处和不同处建立的,但是这不是一种永恒的关系。

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And use a whole array of means: diplomacy, alliances letting other countries do things instead of us.

我们可以通过很多方式解决问题：,建立外交关系，建立联盟,让别的国家也参与,而并非事事亲力亲为。

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By building certain political institutions that would channel the flawed, imperfect human nature toward the good.

通过建立某种政治机构,引导有缺陷的，不完美的人性向好的方面发展。

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And as the last link is broken, we might be able to build effectively a bypass.

鉴于最后一个链接遭到破坏，我们可以通过设置旁路有效地建立起这个链接。

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Since the connection with the poker chips is established through classical conditioning, sooner or later by that logic the poker chips would lose their power to serve as reinforcers.

因为与扑克筹码有关的联结,是通过经典条件作用建立的，所以按照这种逻辑,扑克筹码迟早会失去强化物的作用。

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He will have to do the recruiting of people that come with him on the colony; he will have to do the constitutional discussion and a political discussion to gain the sanction from the mother city to allow him to do everything he knows.

他需要招募很多人手,来帮助他去建立殖民地,他的提案必须通过立宪讨论和政治会议,这样母邦才能许可,他才能建立殖民地

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So there are two components integral and inseparable in the concept of holiness: initial assignment of holy status by God and establishment of rules to preserve that holy status, and secondly, actualization of that holiness by humans through the observance of the commandments and rules that mark that thing off as holy.

因此在神圣这一概念中，有两个组成部分,一个是上帝最初形成的神圣状态,和为了保持这个神圣状态而建立的规则制度，第二个是，人们通过遵守戒律,而将神圣现实化到生活中,将神圣的事物标记出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And he follows that initial ordering by setting up celestial bodies, just as Marduk did.

他通过建立天体来遵循最初的宇宙秩序，就像Marduk所做的一样。

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