Whatever may have been the moment and the circumstances of its appearance in the scale of animal life, language could only have been born in one fell swoop.

不论是在动物的历史中何种时候何种环境，语言只可能是一刹那间诞生。

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The building searches to preserve, at its own scale, the porosity and "profoundness" of the deep, narrow plots, while also trying to capture part of the "collage" -like appearance of the surroundings.

建筑试图保护这片幽深、狭窄的地块自身尺度下的交融性、深刻性，同时试图成为“拼图”的一部分——与周边环境的外观协调。

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It boils down to the appearance on the surface of two precise and mineral shapes, abstract marks and isolated contextual scale.

建筑外形就像两个浓缩的精密矿石、抽象符号，又像是两个被分离又有联系的天平。

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Levi-Strauss writes: Whatever may have been the moment and the circumstances of its appearance in the scale of animal life, language could only have been born in one fell swoop.

列维，施特劳斯写道：,不论语言是何时何种环境下,在动物的历史中诞生的，语言只可能是一刹那间诞生。

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