Levi-Strauss writes: Whatever may have been the moment and the circumstances of its appearance in the scale of animal life, language could only have been born in one fell swoop.

列维，施特劳斯写道：,不论语言是何时何种环境下,在动物的历史中诞生的，语言只可能是一刹那间诞生。

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I mean, you only got one vehicle for life so if you put your body away, you know,

我是说，人一生就这么一个身体，要是身体没了，

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Dean had dispatched the occupant of the apartment to the kitchen probably to make coffee while he proceeded with his love problems for to him sex was the one and only holy and important thing in life although he had to sweat and curse to make a living and so on.

安已经把这公寓的人发配到厨房了,也许去煮咖啡，好让他继续进行他的爱事,因为对他来说性是生活中仅有的一桩神圣而重要的事,尽管这样他得边流汗边咒骂来活着。

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One thing, maybe not the only thing, but at least one thing, that goes into a life worth having is enjoying it, is pleasure.

有一样东西也许不是唯一但有一样东西，在生命中是值得拥有的,就是享受，就是快乐。

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So, to confine the individual, it seems, to one and only one sphere of life would seem to do an injustice to the internal psychological complexity that makes each of us who we are.

所以，将个人约束在，唯一一个人生阶层之中似乎不公,因为忽视了,内心的复杂度,而这正是让我们每一个人显得独特的原因。

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So this is the only one thing what I learned in my life.

这是我在生活中唯一学到的东西。

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I had only been in one other train in my life.

我一生中只上过另外一列火车。

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