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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Hobbes provided us with the definitive language in which even today we continue to speak about the modern state.

霍布斯提供了一种权威性的概念,而直到今天,我们依然用它来描述现代国家。

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