We have above the line a concept and we have below the line a sound image.

这条线的上面是一个概念,下面是声音所代表的图像。

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The concept he calls a "signified" and the sound image he calls a "signifier."

事物被称为所指,声音形象被称为能指“

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In other words, I think of something and that thinking of something corresponds to a sound image that I have ready to hand for it.

现在，我们来想想,一个词和它所对应的声音形象,我已经画出来了。

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In the meantime, what Saussure is doing with this relationship above and below the line is, he is saying that there is an arbitrary relationship between the concept and the sound image.

同时，索绪尔觉得这组关系,也就是线上和线下的这个组合，他说，这是一个任意的组合,在事物和声音形象之间。

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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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and knowing that the sound image correlative to the concept tree is "arbor," right, arbor I can think of something like that , something in some way resembling that.

树这个词所对应的声音形象是,凉亭，对，凉亭,也就是像我画的树这样，至少是像这样的东西。

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