The U.S.military has also announced it is investigating an accusation made by a Swedish charity that American troops last week broke down doors and tied up staff members while searching for insurgents at a hospital in Wardak province.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

So that what's new in Saussure's thinking about the relationship between signified and signifier is that the sign tied up in this relationship is both arbitrary and differential.

这就是索绪尔所贡献的了,能指和所指的关系,也就是符号的组成方式,是任意的，有差别的。

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They've got so much of their assets tied up in oil.

而他们却把大部分的资产,都与石油联系在一起。

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This nest is made up of thousands of pieces of bamboo tied together with the kind of brightly colored rope usually used by mountain climbers.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Right, we see in this passage something that reveals so much about what the Greek values were and you'll see how closely they were tied up with the polis and the primacy of the polis in their lives.

对的,我们在这篇文章中,看到了很多揭示希腊人价值观的东西,你们能看到他们和城邦以及城邦在他们,生命中至高无上的地位之间有多么紧密相连

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If you look back over it, there was no major or minor in western music up until about sixteenth century, and then people started writing these things called madrigals, that were tied to texts.

如果回顾下历史,大家会发现直到十六世纪,西方世界才出现大调和小调,那时人们开始写一种叫做牧歌的曲子,并配上歌词

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In Greece you have a lot of war and you have a lot of freedom, and all of that is tied up, I think very much, with the development of this very special thing called the polis.

在希腊,存在着无数战争,但同时也存在着无限自由,我认为,战争和自由之所以,紧密相连,密不可分,是因为城邦这一特殊事物的维系

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