It allows for this map between a symbol, say a spoken word, and any sort of thought we want to use.

语言允许在符号,比如说出的一个词,与我们想要使用的任何想法之间,存在着这种映射关系

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He makes clothes for Adam and Eve. He's spoken of in much more anthropomorphic terms then the God that we encounter in Genesis 1.

他给亚当夏娃做衣服,比起《创世纪》1中的上帝，这个上帝说话具有人类的特点。

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She and the Chevy seemed parked at the center of an odd religious instant, as if on some other frequency, or out of the eye of some whirlwind rotating too slow for her heated skin even to feel the centrifugal coolness of words were being spoken.

她和她的雪佛兰车，似乎停在了,一个宗教瞬间的中心，就像在其他的频率上，又像是离开了旋风的风眼,风转的如此之慢，以至于她灼热的皮肤,感觉不到言语带来的，离心般的寒冷。

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