Like the Russian formalists--and in a way like the New Critics -talking about their "academic" colleagues, Saussure is vexed by the messiness and lack of system in the study of linguistics.

这一点和形式主义者，新批评论者,这些学院派的人们很相像，索绪尔对语言学的杂乱,和无章感到恼火。

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He's still a professor at MIT, still publishes on language and thought, among other matters.

他现在仍然是麻省理工学院的一位教授，还在出版关于语言，思想，以及其他主题的读物。

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