"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

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As I say, there's a certain instability which could never apply in the semiotics of the stoplight because there it's not so much a question of but rather the insistence that the color is just that color.

我承认，颜色的选择有时候是有规律的,但是在语义学上这解释不通,因为他们不考虑,但是语义学家认为颜色只单纯表示颜色。

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The fact that it was blue or red is not relevant, and if I threw a gorilla at him it doesn't matter what the color of the gorilla is, what mood it is in.

物体是蓝色还是红色都没有关系,如果我扔给他一只大猩猩,它的颜色和情绪都是不重要的

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