然而，人们用汉语写作时，使用的是代表文字或思想的字符。

People who write in Chinese, however, use characters that stand for words or ideas.

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每个剧目都有一个主题或中心思想，剧作家希望通过对话和行为让人们理解这些主题或思想。

Each play has a theme or central idea which the playwright hopes to get across through dialogue and action.

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例如，一个与个人性格或情况挂钩的特定音乐主题，可能会在电影的几个转折点重复播放，以提醒观众电影所突出的主题或思想。

For example, a particular musical theme associated with an individual character or situation may be repeated at various points in a film in order to remind the audience of salient motifs or ideas.

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Rarely does the narrator comment on or explain a character's actions or thoughts or motives. There's only the barest minimum of dialogue.

作者极少评价或解释一个人物的行为,或思想或动机，文章中只有不能再直白的对话。

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It's got that kind of air of profundity about it that philosophy's thought to have or aspires to have.

带有某种哲学思想或追求,所具有的深刻性。

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For reason, he writes in a famous passage, "for reason is nothing but reckoning, that is adding and subtracting the consequences of general names agreed upon."

对理性而言，他在一个著名的段落中写到，“推理就是一种计算，也就是将公认为标示或表明思想的,普通名词所构成的序列相加减“

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