The way in which we put signs together is to take these bundles, these binary relationships between a concept and a sound image, and adjust them in an unfolding sequence.

我们随意地将能指和所指捆在一起，也就是构成了一个事物和声音形象的关系，而且他们能被排列成话语。

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It's all very well to say, "Look at me, I'm reconciling harmonies, I'm creating patterns, I'm showing the purpose of image clusters and all the rest of it," but if you keep doing it, what you have yoked together becomes unyoked again.

我们可以说，“看，我协调了冲突，我创造了形势说，我展现了意象群“,但是如果一直深入，你联系起来的东西又会再次分开了。

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