So what I think we get from these two little readings today is a sense of where literature finds itself at a kind of crossroads.

所以我们今天要从这两篇短文里认识到,文学在十字路口所处的位置。

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Also Lower Pacific Heights on Fillmore Street has a store called Crossroads that I like.

菲尔莫尔街上有一家店叫十字路口，我很喜欢。

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So, my danger when I came to what I called the "crossroads" of inheritance and this discovery was not a danger of Muslim extremism.

因而，当我遇到危险，即我所谓的,继承传统的十字路口和发现另一个美国时,这个危险并非穆斯林极端主义的危险。

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Now this isn't the first time in this course that I've paused over a moment at a crossroads where you can't possibly take both paths but where it is obviously very, very difficult to make up one's mind.

现在是这个课程中第一次,在一个分叉路口停下,我们不可能同时走两条路,但是这也显然是非常难以决定的一个地方。

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We are not yet at such a crossroads.

我们现在站在商业变革之路上前所未有的十字路口处。

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