The U.S.military has also announced it is investigating an accusation made by a Swedish charity that American troops last week broke down doors and tied up staff members while searching for insurgents at a hospital in Wardak province.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

So that what's new in Saussure's thinking about the relationship between signified and signifier is that the sign tied up in this relationship is both arbitrary and differential.

这就是索绪尔所贡献的了,能指和所指的关系,也就是符号的组成方式,是任意的，有差别的。

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They've got so much of their assets tied up in oil.

而他们却把大部分的资产,都与石油联系在一起。

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Right, we see in this passage something that reveals so much about what the Greek values were and you'll see how closely they were tied up with the polis and the primacy of the polis in their lives.

对的,我们在这篇文章中,看到了很多揭示希腊人价值观的东西,你们能看到他们和城邦以及城邦在他们,生命中至高无上的地位之间有多么紧密相连

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