A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

  • -- Ferdinand de Saussure 索绪尔

语言系统是一系列的语音差异与一系列的思想差异相结合的产物。

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A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush.

边境和内陆地区都使用了一套摄像头和审查系统,以帮助探测穿越浓密灌木丛的非法移民的动向。

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.

人是一种多元的、集体的统一,在这种统一中,目的的统一和命运的差别必须彼此理解。

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

朋友之间品味或意见的差异与他们的琐事成正比,令人生厌。

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

我觉得我还不如住在太阳系的另一个地方。

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

我们中的一些人有伟大的原创想法,而我们中的一些人依赖于适应。

Words are but the signs of ideas.

言语不过是思想的标志。