他们画简单的图画或符号来代表事物和思想，也代表他们的语言。

They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language.

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商标是标识产品制造商并将其与其他类似产品区分开来的单词、名称或符号。

Trademarks are words, names, or symbols that identify the manufacturer of a product and distinguish it from similar goods of others.

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商标可以防止其他人使用相同或相似的单词、名称或符号来利用品牌的认可度和知名度或在市场上造成困惑。

A trademark prevents others from using the identical or a similar word, name, or symbol to take advantage of the recognition and popularity of the brand or to create confusion in the marketplace.

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It is a bleeding or spilling into successive signs in such a way that it perpetually leaves what Derrida calls "traces." That is to say, as we examine the unfolding of a speech act, we see the way in which successive signs are contaminated.

它渗入或涌入一系列符号之中,并且永恒地留下了德里达所说的，“痕迹“，也就是说，如果我们研究言语行为，我们就能看到连续的符号被污染的方式。

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And what this means is we can use --take any arbitrary idea in the world, the idea of a chair or a story or a country, and make a sound or a sign to connect to it.

符号任意性是指,我们可以拿来世间任何想法,比如椅子,故事,或是国家,再发明一种声音或符号来与之相联系

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We talk in terms of high pitch and low pitch although we'll fine tune that next time, and then we have this idea of duration or time, which we tend to write out in symbols that move from your left to right.

我们是从高低方面来谈论音高,即使我们将于下次讲解曲调的问题,我们已经有了音符时值或时间的概念,我们倾向于用符号来表示,时间是从你的左边向右边移动的

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