经过数十年的变迁，这个词失去了其负面含义，现在它被理解为一种生存的必要。

Over the decades it has lost its negative connotations and is now taken as a necessity of survival.

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cghttpd是一个小型Web服务器，它被理解为使用2.6系列内核中可用的异步功能的一个试验品。

CGHTTPD is a minimal Web server best understood as an experiment in use of asynchronous facilities available in the 2.6 series of Linux kernels.

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我尝试不止一次向他解释什么是脱水鸡肉，以及它被送上过月球。但是他的生活与你我的太不相同，因此他完全不能理解我说的事。

I tried to explain to him what it was and that it had been to the moon, but his life is so different from mine or yours that he had no context in which he could understand what I was saying.

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That is to say, it is not a system of signs understood as stable relationships between a concept world and a world of signifying.

也就是说，它不是一个符号系统，这个符号系统被理解为,概念世界和指示世界间的稳定的关系。

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That would have been an understandable position to come to in the fourteenth century, but it would have been wrong.

那可能就是能被14世纪的人们,所理解的解释,但它有可能是错的

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If I can just have it there before me, that is a very difficult and derivative intellectual act, and it cannot be understood as primordial or primitive.

仅是面对着它，对于思维来说非常困难，并且这不能被理解为是原始的。

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