The Supreme Court has heard many cases that test the meaning of the First Amendment.

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In the first passage, the statement about language by criticism, that sign and meaning can never coincide, is what is precisely taken for granted in the kind of language we call "literary."

在第一段，关于语言的主张，用批判的方式，认为符号和意思永远不能相矛盾，正是这个主张,被人们认为是理所当然的，对于我们所说的文学语言来说“

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The sense of the sentence pushes us on to the next line, which alters our view of the meaning of the word "fruit:": "Of Man's First Disobedience and the Fruit / of that Forbidden Tree."

句意迫使我们看下一句，看了这句我们对“果子“的理解也发生变化：,“关于人类最初违反天神命令偷尝禁树的果子“

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Now our first thought is, Oh, aha, that has no meaning, right?

我们的第一反应就是，这灯没什么含义？

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Its meaning will not be evident to you on a first reading.

其中意涵在你首度阅读时,并不明显。

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but though there were also chapters that analyze films to be count as being a form of films studies, too but the first chapter is concerned about the whole question about form and content technique and meaning.

虽然也有章节,是分析电影的,所以这本书也算讨论了电影,但是第一章讲的是,关于内容和形式的问题,关于技术和意义的问题。

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Now this is what Derrida is deliberately struggling with in this first paragraph: an "event" , if this loaded word did not entail a meaning thought to reduce or to suspect.

这就是德里达,在第一段着力解决的问题：,一个事件，加引号的，…,如果这个词的意思没有,减少或怀疑的意图。

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The first of the two passages I want to talk about is Hirsch's argument that "meaning is an affair of consciousness and not of words" -meaning is an affair of consciousness and not of words.

这两篇里我想首先讲讲赫施的主张,“含义关乎意识，而不是字词“,含义关乎意识，而不是字词。

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