So that what's new in Saussure's thinking about the relationship between signified and signifier is that the sign tied up in this relationship is both arbitrary and differential.

这就是索绪尔所贡献的了，能指和所指的关系，也就是符号的组成方式，是任意的，有差别的。

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The global Fourier transform can also be obtained by switching (up to sign) the multiplication by a coordinate of the affine line and the differential operator with respect to this coordinate.

它等同于通过交换(可能差一个正负号)由局部坐标给出的数乘和这个局部坐标相对应的微分算子得到的微分模。

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So that what's new in Saussure's thinking about the relationship between signified and signifier is that the sign tied up in this relationship is both arbitrary and differential.

这就是索绪尔所贡献的了,能指和所指的关系,也就是符号的组成方式,是任意的，有差别的。

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