I'll just tell you that Tennyson thought cellar door the two most beautiful words in the English language were "cellar door" and that audible beauty was his preoccupation in the making of poetry.

我想说的是，塔尼森认为,英语中最动人的两个词是“,这是他对于追求诗歌听觉效果的执念。

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Those titles that Eikhenbaum keeps talking about -How Don Quixote was Made, How Gogol's Overcoat was Made- reflect the preoccupation of the Russian formalists with how literature is put together.

艾肯鲍姆总谈论,堂吉诃德，果戈理的外套是是怎么塑造的-,这反映了俄国形式主义者,对文本组合方式的执着。

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I think we're meant to understand that he is so focused on the question of redemption that he fails to see anything else; he fails to see anyone else in his preoccupation with that problem.

我想我们得知道,他正被救赎的问题所困扰,在他被次纠缠时,他看不到任何事;,也看不到任何人。

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