Then we realize once again that we can only know what it is if we come to understand--in this case, probably, it's best to say a cultural system, understood as a semiosis, within which it appears.

这样我们就又明白了,只有在一个特定的文化系统中,我们才能认识一个符号。

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They've tended to view the elaborate and carefully constructed texts of P as part of a system whose meaning derives from the larger cultural matrix or grid in which those materials are embedded.

他们注意观察P中十分详尽和仔细构造的内容,这个内容属于某个系统的一部分,源自一个更大的文化母体或网络,所有的这些材料内容都包含在里面。

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