You had a semiotic system, whereas before, yesterday, or a minute ago you had no language at all.

一个符号系统诞生了，然而之前，昨天，或者就是一分钟前，根本就没有语言。

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It's important for you guys to know that everything you write down in the notebook or blackboard as a symbol is actually a measured quantity.

其重要性就在于,你们要知道,你们记在本子上或者写在黑板上的任何物理符号,实际上都是测量量

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One thing that makes it pretty clear is that certainly delta S or the sign of it alone is not dictating the outcome here.

这个例子非常清楚的说明,熵增dS或者它的符号,不能单独决定最后的结果。

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Once you get that, once you get the value, "Christmas tree," as opposed to "red lights," "red lights" being perhaps a part of some Christmas trees, then you see that you're back in a semiotic system and a very obvious one, because a Christmas tree is a not-menorah, not-Kwanzaa candles.

一旦认识到这点，红灯，指的其实是圣诞树“,红灯是圣诞树的一部分，那么你会发现你回到了符号学的解释中，圣诞树不用于犹太教或者非洲人的节日。

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