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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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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Both emphasize the mutual involvements and initiations of texts; stress the derivation and evolution law of the textual meaning, and the relationship between text and culture.

其核心观点都是注重文本之间的相互指涉与相互引发，注重文本意义的派生与演化规律以及文本与文化之间的关系。

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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.

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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.

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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.

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