This piece of basalt rock has been cut with words in the Akkadian language.

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And Milton uses the language of these two parables to get at this problem that has resonances in every conceivable sphere.

弥尔顿用这两则寓言来解释,可以想象出的与此有共鸣的问题。

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Now, language is not the only thing in culture or nature that has this sort of combinatorial system.

语言并不是在文化或自然中,唯一拥有这种组合系统的事物

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

3 So here what I'm doing is 17 divided by 13, but because of this parenthetical, , -- because of that parenthetical -- that has nothing to do with math; -- this is a programming language thing -- that is a casting operation.

所以这里我要做的是用17除以，但因为这样的题外话，因为那样的题外话-,还是没有做完这个数学题;,这是一个编程语言的东西-,那是一个计算操作。

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That is not true for Crete because, although they had a script-- and we have available to us tablets with those writings on them-- to this day no one has deciphered the language written by the Minoans.

不过对于克里特来说不行,因为,虽然他们的确有一些手稿存世...,我们能够看到这些写着字的残片,不过直到今天,没有一个人能破译米诺斯文明的文字

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

You may not like me," he says to the jury, " "but I am good for you and furthermore he claims in this what can only be described as sort of quasi-religious language that he has no choice in the matter.

他对陪审团说：，“你们可能不喜欢我，但我对你们有益,此外他的以下主张,仅能说是,某种类似宗教的语言,因为宣称在这件事情上他别无选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now, let me just make the last point I want to make about this, and that's that because language is material, it has form, it has both closedness and possibility, it's susceptible to the workings of craft, it's also unpredictable. Tosses mobius strip on floor.

让我说关于此事的最后一个观点吧，正因为语言是物质的，它有固定模式，它没有尽头又充满可能，它易受,工艺品的影响，它同时也是不可预知的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And all of this has to be learned through exposure to language users.

而且所有这些都必须通过,暴露于拥有语言使用者的环境才能习得

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