I mean, there is an emptying out of positive meaning in the very awareness that, after all, the red light could mean "go" I'm about to go on and give more examples.

这就事我们不能主动赋予符号意义,但是是要认识到，红灯也有表示，出发，的意思“,我会用更多例子来说明它。

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I'll give the word the meaning I intend it to mean.

我说的话就是必须表达我的意思。

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That is Hirsch's other key position, and we can understand it by saying something like this: the meaning of a text is what the author intended it to mean -that is to say, what we can establish with a reliable paraphrase.

这就是赫施的另一个重要观点，我们可以这样理解它：,文章的意思是作者想要表达的,即我们通过适当的释意能够想到的。

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