That means to be nervous about having to do something, like speaking in front of a crowd.

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Now that's a tricky word for us because later in the semester we're going to be reading about something called the New Historicism, and the New Historicism actually has nothing to do with what Gadamer is ; objecting to in this form of historicism; so we will return to the New Historicism in that context.

这个词对我们来说比较具有迷惑性,因为这学期我们还会读到,新历史主义，新历史主义,与伽达默尔所反对的历史主义,没有任何关系;,那个时候我们再来讨论新历史主义。

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It's in here to--intended to do two things: One to show you something about the method that we will be using in here and two, to show you something of the level of this course-- the level of the course.

这个测试的目的是,第一,向你展示一些我们的教学方法,第二,告诉你本课程所处的水平,本课程的水平

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