Hence speaker and listener are engaged in a game which determines the meaning of the statement.

因此，说者与听者都参与了游戏，决定了这段语言的意义。

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The meaning of the statement is entirely independent of the individualities of the members of the groups.

这句称述的意义和这组事物单独成员的特质完全无关。

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Metaphor is totally dependent on the ordinary meaning of those words, which depends entirely on the words formed by the ordinary meaning of the statement.

隐喻完全依赖于这些语词的通常意义，从而完全依赖于由这些语词所组成的语句的通常含义。

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Even more dangerously, from the standpoint of anybody who likes poetry, he talks instead of "statement," meaning science, and "pseudo-statement," meaning poetry.

更危险的是，在任何一个热爱诗歌的人看来，他转用“陈述“指代科学，用“伪陈述“指代诗歌。

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But going back to 2000, the above statement uses the term "strictly limited" for the import of game consoles, meaning there's still space for negotiation.

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