Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

-- Willard Van Orman Quine 威拉德·冯·奥曼·蒯因

意义是本质脱离了指称的对象而依附于词时所变成的东西。

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Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.

两千年前，在这个地球上，有一个人过着迄今为止最伟大的生活——每一个有思想的人，不论其意义是深是浅，都一致认为这种生活是神圣的。

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This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.

这与天文学非常相似，天文学根据测量到的波长范围，为天体的亮度分配不同的亮度。

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If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

如果艺术把自己与一个对象联系起来，它就变成描述性的、区分性的、文学性的。

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Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

爵士乐是节奏和意义。

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