So, they call the Estates General then, but the king never calls it again until 1789.

紧接着,召开了三级会议,但是在1789年,三级会议才再次召开

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and then they're like, "Yeah, we'll call you, we'll call you." That's fine. And they never called me

然后他们都说类似的话：“好的，我们会打电话给你的。”说得好听，但他们从来没给我打过电话。

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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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And, in a similar point, he maintains that punishment can never be used as an instrument of revenge but only for what he calls the correction or what we would call the rehabilitation of the offender.

同时他还认为,法律上的惩罚是不能作为复仇的工具,而当作为纠正罪犯过错的工具,即我们今天叫的,对罪犯进行改造。

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