It is not just a system of symbols, but is also the most important carrier of cultural messages.

它不仅仅是一套符号系统，更是传达文化内涵的重要载体。

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Language is a system of symbols based on relations, among which syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations are the most universal and important ones.

语言是一个以关系为基础的符号系统，而横组合和纵聚合关系是这个系统中最普遍、最核心的关系。

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Language is a system of symbols based on physiology, psychology and physics. It is a specific social action and a carrier of information used for human communication in a society.

语言是基于生理学，心理学和物理学的符号系统，既是特定的人类行为，又是人类信息交流的载体。

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So, you can have a kind of system of symbols that's gemlike and pleasurable and that calls you to submit to it as it does here for Oedipa, but in the end there is something more that her search will produce, and that is the moment of compassion.

所以你能够有种珍贵和令人愉快的象征系统,它能让你向它屈服,就像对Oedipa一样，不过在最后她的寻找得到了更多的东西,这就是同情的瞬间，我想提出的是眼泪贯穿了正本书。

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This is not a critique of government or the private sector so much as it is a critique of the fragility of our system and its institutions, and the power of symbols to combat this fragility.

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The same cannot be said of the banks, which, in the course of the 1990s and 2000s became pervasive symbols both of a bogus form of economic success and of a value system that drove morality out of many areas of business.

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