iterature cannot merely be received as a definite unit of referential meaning that can be decoded without leaving a residue.

文学不能仅仅以一个确切的参考性意思的单位来理解,这种参考性意思的单位在破解时不会留下任何残余。

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And it is obviously referential to Vermeer's "The Astronomer."

对于弗米尔的“天文学家’,有明显的参考价值“

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