We've had a great deal to do with it, but of course we still haven't the slightest idea what it is.

我们花了很大的功夫来接解决这个问题，但我们仍然一点都不知道语言是什么。

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They've had a great deal to do with the way the South would go, or parts of the South would go.

他们都与南方的整体形势,或局部形式紧密相关

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But Barthes has entered a phase of his career in which you actually think that structures are so complex that they cease to be structures and that this has a great deal to do with the influence of deconstruction.

但是巴特已经进入了事业的一个阶段,这时你会认为结构非常复杂而不想继续研究结构了,这就对解构主义产生了很大的影响。

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For those of you who still do believe in the existence of souls I suppose you could take a great deal in discussions that follows as some form of large conditional or subjunctive if there were no souls then here's what we have to say.

如果你们有人,还是相信灵魂的存在,或者你可以从以下的讨论里,也学到一些东西,把讨论看成有条件性和假定性的,假设没有灵魂,然后就是我们要讨论的东西。

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All of this the New Criticism had a great deal to do with-- and when I talk next time about the way in which it's been vilified for the last forty or fifty years, naturally I will have this in the back of my mind.

这些都跟新批评派有关-,等我下次再说到这个,在四五十年前饱受诋毁的文学鉴赏方式的时候，我还会想起今天所说的话。

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You remember in the first lecture I said there's a difference between the history of criticism and theory of literature, one difference being that the history of criticism has a great deal to do with literary evaluation: that is to say, why do we care about literature and how can we find means of saying that it's good or not good?

你们还记得吗，第一节课我说过,文学评论历史和文学理论有一个重大区别，那就是文学评论的历史,很大程度上与文学评估有关：,意思就是我们为什么要关心文学,还有我们怎么能说一部作品是好还是坏？

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