You have something which suddenly appears amid other things: something which is latent in those things, although they don't in themselves have it until you confer it on them, namely that which confers meaning--language.

这些东西突然于其它东西之间出现：,这些潜在于其它东西之中，虽然若你不给它一个意思的话，它们不会有意思，也就是说，给予事物意义的就是语言。

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