He thought about it for a moment. Then he told Jackson to get started.

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So that can be unsettling when we think of this as happening at a certain contemporaneous moment in the history of thought.

如果把这个问题放在思想史的特定时期来想,它可能是难以解决的。

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I think it's people talking without giving a moment's thought to what they meant when they said it.

我觉得人们在这么说的时候,并没有好好地思考过。

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A sign, in other words, is made up of two sides in, as it were, a thought moment: a relationship between that which is signified and that which signifiesit.

所以，一个符号是由两面组成的，想一想，能指和所指,的关系。

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Indeed,let me take a moment and read a poem that emphasizes this thought, because this is certainly one central,very bad thing about death.

事实上，让我念一首诗来强调它，因为这确实是死亡的主要坏处。

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