He's saying they're doing great work but they forget this one little thing: you cannot reconcile rhetoric and grammar.

他说的是，他们做得非常好,但是他们忘记了一个小问题，修辞和语法是不可能和解的。

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What you're much better at doing is saying how do I take the problem I've got and map it into a class of algorithms about which I know and use the efficiencies of those to try and figure out how to make it work.

当你碰到问题的时候,更好的方法是把遇到的问题映射,到已经设计好的算法中去,并用这些算法来提高效率,来保证问题得到解决。

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In the meantime, what Saussure is doing with this relationship above and below the line is, he is saying that there is an arbitrary relationship between the concept and the sound image.

同时，索绪尔觉得这组关系,也就是线上和线下的这个组合，他说，这是一个任意的组合,在事物和声音形象之间。

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The idea then that Machiavelli is doing no more than saying openly and overtly what ancient writers had wrapped in parable and enigma and myth says something about Machiavelli's new political science.

马基雅维利只不过是,公然说出了古代作家们,以寓言，谜以及神话的形式包裹的内容,这种看法一定程度上阐明了马基雅维利的。

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