As I’ve said many times before French as a language is largely an evolution of Latin and so we can look back to the Latin words funus and funer meaning “death rites.”

我之前已经说过很多次，法语主要由拉丁语演变而来，因此我们能更向前考察，拉丁语的funus以及funer的意思是“死亡仪式”。

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I am not one of those lunkheads who interpret evolution as meaning only the fittest survive and their survival proves that they deserved to outlast other species.

我不像那些笨蛋一样，将进化论仅仅解释为优胜劣汰和某一物种存活了下来证明了它们应当比其他物种活的时间长。

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From a broader sense, we hold that human evolution comprises some meanings similar to the meaning of "Faster, Higher, Stronger" and the essence of human evolution is self-surpassing.

从更广义的意义上说，人类的进化也包含着“更高、更快、更强”的含义。人类进化的本质就是超越自我。

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And this, the age of the de-evolution of meaning, we're ironically working toward a deeper superficiality, not only to combat the short attention spans of young people, but to hook the wiser.

NPR: Military Contractor Blackwater Changes Its Name

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

Media companies seem to be leading the charge in this de-evolution of meaning in an attempt to evolve and be all things to all people.

NPR: Military Contractor Blackwater Changes Its Name