He adds that Russia in this field is far behind what he calls the modern civilized world.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

What I'm suggesting to you is that this was the best information gathering and storing device that existed in the Mediterranean world.

我所想要告诉你们的是,特尔斐是地中海世界,收集和储存信息的最佳地点

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And what this means is we can use --take any arbitrary idea in the world, the idea of a chair or a story or a country, and make a sound or a sign to connect to it.

符号任意性是指,我们可以拿来世间任何想法,比如椅子,故事,或是国家,再发明一种声音或符号来与之相联系

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Still, that's not a world in which the Morning Star doesn't exist, given that what we mean by the Morning Star is that heavenly object, whatever it is, that in this world we pick out at that time in the morning looking up at the sky.

但这并不是意味着,晨星在这个世界不存在,如果给定了晨星的意思就是,一个这样的天体,不管它到底是什么,在这个世界上,在早晨的那个时候我们仰望天空,就能看到的那个天体

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