They only had the occasion in a kind of formless matter upon which they could adopt and impose any form they took.

他们仅有的是,在一种无形物质中的机遇,在其中他们能采纳,并强加任何他们喜欢的形式。

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Who knows? Maybe we'll try on some other occasion, but for the moment I think you can see that in making remarks of this kind about a text one has shifted the attention from meaning to structure.

我们也许会在以后讲到它，谁知道呢，但是我想你们应该已经看出来,我们的重点已经从内容,转移到了形式。

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The essay that you read in its entirety for today, "Structure, Sign and Play in the Language of the Human Sciences," was delivered on the occasion of a conference about "the sciences of man" at Johns Hopkins University in 1966.

今天我们要读的是一整篇文章，名为《人文科学话语中的结构、符号和游戏》,这篇文章发表于1966年,在约翰普金斯大学召开的一个会议上，会议主题是“人类科学“

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