"Which doesn't sound that far if you have a car, but it sounds very far if you have to get on a bus, and you have to carry your week's worth of groceries home with you."

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I want to conclude with problems, which may sound kind of negative but this is--I don't shrink from negativism.

我想以保险业的缺陷作为本课总结,它可能听起来有点否定意味,但这是,我并不讨厌否定

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And of course, there is the sound person which is often neglected,

当然，音响师总是被忽略，

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The way in which we put signs together is to take these bundles, these binary relationships between a concept and a sound image, and adjust them in an unfolding sequence.

我们随意地将能指和所指捆在一起，也就是构成了一个事物和声音形象的关系，而且他们能被排列成话语。

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This is what--this is where the humor for that baby comes in, which is you couldn't predict when the sound was coming and some aspect of that was what made it so funny then, what elicited the laughter.

这就是…,为什么那些婴儿那么好笑，因为你猜不到他们什么时候会笑,因此我们才觉得好笑，引起我们大笑。

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