Remember, language exists synchronically: it only exists in a moment, in a moment of simultaneity.

注意，语言存在于同一时间中：,它只存在于一个个时间截面上。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

People who speak the same language could understand the people of northern Afghnastan who don't require 200,000 dollars a year as the sallary.

说同一种语言的人们可以理解阿富汗北部人们,这些人也不会要求年薪200，000，美元。

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You really have, therefore, for in some way the first time in history, a dream of making all of his empire basically universal, a dream of a universal vision, for one world, under one kind of culture, one kind of language.

因此某种程度上说，这是历史上第一次出现，梦想建立统一的帝国，同一个世界的愿景，同一种文化，同一种语言。

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