Just as a single word can change the meaning of a sentence, a single sentence can change the meaning of a paragraph.

正如一个单词可以改变一句话的意思，一句话可以改变一段话的意思。

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People whose levels of happiness and meaning line up, and people who have a strong sense of meaning but are not necessarily happy, showed a deactivation of the adversity stress response.

那些幸福和意义一致的人，以及那些有强烈的意义感但不一定快乐的人，都不能对逆境压力产生反应。

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He joined two Greek words: oikos, meaning "house", and logie, meaning "the study of".

他把两个希腊单词合在了一起：oikos，意思是“房子”，和logie，意思是“什么的研究”。

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Experts say the earliest meaning of the English word farm was a yearly payment made as a tax or rent.

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This is where evaluation comes in. The success or failure of a poem depends on the realization of meaning.

这时就需要评估介入了，一首诗好与坏,取决于它含义表达是否清晰。

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Then, once you've done that, once you have secured the integrity and accuracy of the meaning, Hirsch says, "Okay, fine.

在你完成那个之后，一旦你确定了意思的真实性和准确性，赫施说，好的，不错。

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The researchers' hypothesis was that the meaning of expressions has been hard-wired by evolution whereas the meaning of gestures is learnt and, at least to some extent, is arbitrary.

ECONOMIST: Evidence that the first words were movements, not sounds

Ms. SUSAN MEDAK (Director, Berkeley Repertory Theatre): There was none of that public self-analysis, none of that public scrutiny that we now go through over every major crisis that helps us, as a culture, define the meaning of an experience, to define the meaning of a tragedy.

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Moreover, even within a single group, the meaning of a gesture could vary with context, almost as tone of voice can vary the meaning of a human's spoken word.

ECONOMIST: Evidence that the first words were movements, not sounds