I think it's worth thinking about, at least for a moment, of the oddity of this terrible act of self-mutilation.

我认为这值得思考，至少值得思考一会，有关自毁形象的怪异之处。

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But this was a moment of particular and headlined notoriety in the history of academic thinking about literature, and a moment in which academic thinking about literature had a peculiar influence on topics much broader than literature.

但那是一个臭名昭著的时代,在文学学术思想的历史上，也是那个时候，文学学术思想,对比文学宽泛得多的话题所产生的特别影响。

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The bad prejudice is when we leap to the conclusion, without thinking for a moment that there might be some other historical horizon, that we know what plastic means.

坏先见就是我们直接得出结论，也没有想一下,可能有其他的历史背景，就觉得我们知道plastic是什么了。

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