But we are going to be spending a fair amount of time talking actually about the meaning and the function of Israel's purity laws and cultic laws in a later lecture.

但是接下来我们将花相当一部分的时间,讨论以色列纯度法律和祭仪法律的,意义和作用。

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It has the function, in other words, of negating its own meaning in another semiotic system, in this case the semiotic system of the stoplight.

也就是说，他有这样那样的功能，在不同语义系统中表示的甚至完全相反，就像红灯表示的这些不同含义一样。

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