That means early signs of economic recovery, like the way plants begin to shoot up from the ground as a sign of spring.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

At each cross-section, people are either willing to use a certain sign in a certain way or they're not.

在每一个横街面上，人们可以自由的,以自己的方式使用符号。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I'm not sure whether we'll use the Classes server to have you sign up for discussion sections online, or whether we will do it the old-fashioned way and have you sign up on forms that we'll give you here in class.

我还没想要是用校网站,让大家在线讨论，还是用传统的,课堂讨论。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The public saw the elections as a sign of hope that reasonable people might find a way to settle the bitter dispute over slavery.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

So that's the way a sign works in language.

这就是符号是如何被应用在语言中。

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Then he saw a sign showing the way toward Baghdad.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

And please sign in, by the way, guys, before you leave.

顺便说一下，同学们在离开之前请签名。

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Delegates have been in Barcelona all week to hash out a plan that would pave the way for 192 nations to sign a legally binding international climate deal next month.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

It might be worth pausing over the variety of ways in which we can think of signs in language, all of which have to do with the way in which a given sign might be chosen to go into a speech sentence.

这也许值得尝试,为了理解语言和符号的关系，这一切都和符号怎样,被选择为一段话语的构成部分有关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But she added that "a period of careful consideration" is necessary in order to determine the best way forward in dealing with North Korea, perhaps a sign that China is not yet ready to support U.N.Security Council action.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

These are some of the implications of no longer being satisfied with the way in which a sign can be understood as a concept to which we attach belatedly a signification, a signifier.

有一些意指已不满足于,符号被理解为概念的方式了,我们就再赋予它们一个含义，一个能指。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So let me just return once again to the way in which sign systems are intelligible because lots of- there are going to be lots of moments in a course like this in which what we seem to be saying is that, "Oh, we can't know anything," or "We don't know what we know," or "How do we know what we know?"

现在让我们回到,怎样理解符号系统的话题上-,这个学期你们会有很多时候觉得,天哪，我们什么也认识不了“,或者，哎，我们其实并不了解我们以为理解的事“

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