From moment to moment, language changes, but if we're to understand it as language we have to honor its simultaneity.

语言无时无刻不在变化，但是如果我们要理解它,我们就必须尊重它的同时性。

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Supplementarity is a way of understanding the simultaneously linear and ever proliferating, ever self-complicating nature of verbal expression.

增补性是口头表达的同时线性,不断增加，自我复制,的本质。

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Just as Enkidu gains wisdom and becomes like a god and loses his oneness with nature, so Adam and Eve after eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil are said to have become like gods and they also lose their harmonious relationship with nature.

就像Enkidu得到智慧，变得有神性，却失掉,与自然的和谐，亚当和夏娃在吃了智慧果以后,也变得具有神性,同时也失掉了与自然的和谐关系。

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This is a world understood from a metonymic point of view as that which lacks organicity, and yet at the same time the whole point of the story is thematically metaphoric.

这个世界要从转喻的角度来理解,因为世界没有组织性，而且同时,整个故事的主旨就是比喻性的。

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