All of these systems we can call "languages," and "language"--that is to say, the words that we use when we speak to each other is one of those systems.

这种系统我们称为语言“,也就是说，是关于我们说话用语的研究,关于那个系统的研究。

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A low-level language, we used to call this assembly programming, you're down at the level of, your primitives are literally moving pieces of data from one location of memory to another, through a very simple operation.

一个低级的语言，我们曾经将其称为假设编程，你们只是处于用基本要素，把一些数据碎片,从记忆存储器的一个地方，通过简单的操作来转到另外一个地方。

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In the first passage, the statement about language by criticism, that sign and meaning can never coincide, is what is precisely taken for granted in the kind of language we call "literary."

在第一段，关于语言的主张，用批判的方式，认为符号和意思永远不能相矛盾，正是这个主张,被人们认为是理所当然的，对于我们所说的文学语言来说“

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I lucked into it but I'd certainly encourage everybody to get a little bit of a flavor of the people's side, the language of business, and the science. I think that's the let me call it "the triple crown of preparation."

我有幸进入这个行业，但是我经常鼓励,人们从他人的角度思考看看，思考商业语言和科学，之间的关联，我想这应该叫,“准备阶段的三重加冕“

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It is the product, the creation of the people or of what we might call, in Jeffersonian language, it is the product of the consent of the governed.

我们可以说它是人民权力的产物,但若用杰斐逊的话讲，我们也可以说它是，统治者们互相默许下的产物。

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In other words, replacing the shortest distance between two points that we experience in a practical message, "literariness," as the formalists call it, or "poetic language," as they also sometimes call it and as the New Critics certainly call it, slows us down.

也就是说，实用语言以最短的距离,联系两点，而文学性，如形式主义者所称，或诗意的语言，他们有时也会这么叫,新批评派成员一定会这么称呼，使我们的理解速度慢了下来。

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