So that can be unsettling when we think of this as happening at a certain contemporaneous moment in the history of thought.

如果把这个问题放在思想史的特定时期来想,它可能是难以解决的。

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Just imagine a philologist being confronted with the idea that the meaning of words at a certain historical moment isn't the only thing that matters in understanding the meaning of a poem.

想象一下，一个语言学家看到一个理论指出,一个字在特定历史阶段的语义,不是影响诗歌意思理解的,唯一因素。

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I want to suggest to you that he did that because a woman is expected to occupy certain conventional roles at this moment, and we see her in one at the very beginning of the novel.

因为在这个时代,女人是被要求扮演,一定的传统角色的，我们在小说的一开始就看到了她。

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