A Christmas tree, in other words, is a sign that can only be understood intelligibly in terms of a certain cultural understanding.

也就是说，它仅仅用于，也仅仅在一定的文化背景中,才能有意义，被理解。

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But it also contains other positions, alternatives that open those over-sized cultural ambitions to critique, to imaginative alternatives of many kinds.

但是它其中也包含着其他一些姿态，一些将这种过量的文学抱负供以批判的选择，以及多种多样的想象出的选择。

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These are linguistic terms. But of course, the people who spoke them, especially in the early years, tended to be part of a relatively narrow collection of people, who intermarried with each other chiefly, and therefore developed common cultural characteristics.

这时的希腊语主要是一些语意项,不过当然,那些讲希腊语的人,特别是在早期,是一个相对小范围的人群,他们主要在族群内部通婚,由此,发展出相近的文化特征

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Does it represent Yeats's own early cultural nationalism and the work represented in The Wind Among the Reeds and other early poems?

它是否代表了叶芝早期,文化民族主义和苇间风里,收录的及其他一些早期诗歌？

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