Tuesday's ceremony came amid a war of words between Russia and Poland over the invasion.

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If you were to just talk into an oscilloscope that measured your sound vibrations, there are no pauses between the words.

如果你对着,测量声震的示波器讲话,你会发现在单词间并没有停顿

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Another part of the problem of learning language is you have to figure out what the boundaries are between the words.

学习语言的另一个问题是,你必须得确定单词之间的界线是什么

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She can hear when the ambiguity creeps in between the words, and that tells her that she needs to find something out.

当这些含糊的东西，出现在字里行间，她能够听到它们并且感觉自己需要发现些什么。

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You have to learn, in other words, how to get your hands dirty. Between the innocence of the Christian and the worldliness of Machiavelli's new morality, there can be no reconciliation.

换句话说，你必须学会如何弄污你的手,在基督教的纯洁观与,马基雅维利新道德中的世俗观之间,没有任何回旋的余地。

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Because remember I said that, typically, when you hear a sentence you make --you manufacture in your mind gaps between the words.

你们记得我之前说过,通常来说,当你听到一个句子时,你会通过心理活动,在词与词之间创造出间隔

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You have to use sound signals to figure out the boundaries between the words.

你必须要用声音信号,来确定单词之间的界线

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the difference between seeing words, hearing words, reading words and generating words can correspond to different aspects of what part of your brain is active.

看到词句,听到词句,阅读词句,创造词句,这些不同的活动,会激活你不同的大脑区域

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In other words, replacing the shortest distance between two points that we experience in a practical message, "literariness," as the formalists call it, or "poetic language," as they also sometimes call it and as the New Critics certainly call it, slows us down.

也就是说，实用语言以最短的距离,联系两点，而文学性，如形式主义者所称，或诗意的语言，他们有时也会这么叫,新批评派成员一定会这么称呼，使我们的理解速度慢了下来。

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And so, an English speaker can hear the difference between "Lip" and "Rip" and that corresponds to two different words in English.

所以,英语说话者可以听出,"Lip"和"Rip"之间的差别,而这两种声音在英语中对应了不同的单词

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