Focus on getting the meaning first, before the words. Body language and facial expressions can help.

先专注理解整体意思，再弄清单词含义。身体语言和面部表情会有所帮助。

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The Supreme Court has heard many cases that test the meaning of the First Amendment.

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In the first passage, the statement about language by criticism, that sign and meaning can never coincide, is what is precisely taken for granted in the kind of language we call "literary."

在第一段，关于语言的主张，用批判的方式，认为符号和意思永远不能相矛盾，正是这个主张,被人们认为是理所当然的，对于我们所说的文学语言来说“

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The sense of the sentence pushes us on to the next line, which alters our view of the meaning of the word "fruit:": "Of Man's First Disobedience and the Fruit / of that Forbidden Tree."

句意迫使我们看下一句，看了这句我们对“果子“的理解也发生变化：,“关于人类最初违反天神命令偷尝禁树的果子“

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Economic bubbles have burst and sent us searching for meaning first, money second.

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You can only get second things like success by putting first things, like meaning, first.

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He wrote from the outside in, meaning the first and last songs were completed before he started penning the middle.

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