So we consider a text as a structured entity, or perhaps as an entity which is structured and yet at the same time that's the case with Roland Barthes.

所以，我们把原文视为一个结构上的实体，或者是作为一个,有结构上的实体同时,这就是罗兰，巴特的例子。

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I'm going to give you a glass case and in the glass case is an entity with this as one kilogram, by definition.

我给你一个玻璃箱,箱子里放的东西刚好是 1 千克,这是根据定义的

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This idea that I don't really care, or that I don't really think I can come to terms with the actual meaning of an entity as that entity, is instrumentalizing the entity.

我不在乎，或不接受这个观点,它认为一个实体作为实体的意义，在于使实体工具化。

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