And what this means is we can use --take any arbitrary idea in the world, the idea of a chair or a story or a country, and make a sound or a sign to connect to it.

符号任意性是指,我们可以拿来世间任何想法,比如椅子,故事,或是国家,再发明一种声音或符号来与之相联系

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And yet, it's also important for reading Pound and for reading Eliot and for reading Moore, who sound the way they do partly because they make a point of not writing pentameter, the meter that Frost often, but not always, chooses.

也对于阅读庞德和,艾略特，莫尔的诗歌很重要，他们听起来是做到了一部分,因为它们提议不要写五音部格诗，这种形式弗罗斯特很常用，但不是总用到。

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