The ribbon he had used to tie the wrists was broken.

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Why didn't he come clean? Of course, they took "The Purloined Ribbon" to be his sort of allegorical way of suggesting that he couldn't possibly confess because nobody can confess, there's no human subjectivity, etc., etc., etc.

为什么不全盘招供，当然，人们把他写的“偷窃的缎带“当成他用一种讽喻的方式,来暗示说他不可能承认,因为没有人能承认，人类主观性的缺失，等等等等。

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The reason it is so exciting that it's a protein, and it's a protein, this is the structure here, it's a ribbon structure so you can kind of see what it looks like, it's made up of all natural amino acids.

它这么让人激动的原因是因为它是一个蛋白质，这里的这个结构，这是个带状机构，你可以看到它的样子，它全部是由氨基酸组成的。

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The deconstructive response consists essentially in saying, "Look. You can't just arbitrarily tie a ribbon around something and say, 'Ah ha. It's a unity.'" Right?

解构主义的核心是，“你不能蛮横地用丝带将东西缠绕起来，就说这是一个整体“，对吧？

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The ribbon comes off.

丝带会松落的。

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One of the texts of de Man -also in the book called Allegories of Reading where you'll find also a version of the essay "Semiology and Rhetoric" one of the essays that those who had actually read de Man actually argued about in a persistent fashion is called "The Purloined Ribbon."

德曼的一篇文章,同样在《阅读的寓言》这本书中能找到,在这本书中还能找到“符号学与修辞“的一个版本“,这是一篇读过德曼的人都会,不停争论的文章，它叫“偷窃的缎带“

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