因私人关系而不受聘用和因此被解雇之间是有差别的(假设，这一事实没有被不当隐匿)。

There is a distinction to be drawn between not hiring someone because of a personal relationship and dismissing someone because of it (assuming that it had not been improperly concealed).

youdao

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。

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.

youdao