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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Their relationship is necessary but, as we'll see in a minute, arbitrary, and each sign is like that.

这种关系十分必要，但是它又有任意性。

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Based on sign digit negabinary representation, the two step addition and one step subtraction of arbitrary length operands can be performed.

基于符号数字负二进制表达，提出了任意字长操作数的并行两步加法与一步减法。

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Their relationship is necessary but, as we'll see in a minute, arbitrary, and each sign is like that.

这种关系十分必要，但是它又有任意性。

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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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