At each cross-section, people are either willing to use a certain sign in a certain way or they're not.

在每一个横街面上，人们可以自由的,以自己的方式使用符号。

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When structuralism thinks about how yesterday things were different from the way they are today, it has to say: yesterday there was a certain synchronic cross-section of data, and today there's a slightly different synchronic cross-section of data.

结构主义想,昨天的事情和今天的事情如何不同时，它不得不说：,昨天有某个数据的同步剖面，今天有数据的略微不同的同步剖面。

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