So although the New Critics were fed up with philological criticism, I don't mean to be condescending toward it or to suggest that it didn't play a crucially important role in the evolution of literary studies.

所以，虽然新批判主义,对语言学批判主义不满，但是并不是要否认语言学批判主义,在文学研究发展过程中,起到的重要作用。

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He could have be arrogant and haughty and condescending and uh.

他本可以很自大高傲，充满优越感。

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Sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound so condescending.

对不起，我不是故意要让它听起来如此高深。

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