Poetic and practical language: you've already been hearing this in I.A. Richards and in the New Critics.

关于诗化的语言和实用的语言：,你们已经了解了理查兹,和新批评主义者。

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That is a course that I like to teach, too; usually I teach Plato to T.S. Eliot or Plato to I.A. Richards or some other important figure in the early twentieth century.

这也是我喜欢教的一门课;,我通常教从柏拉图到T。S。艾略特,或从柏拉图到T。A。理查兹,或者其他20世纪初的重要人物。

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You are really out on a limb - if you're going to defend poetry--as Richards kept doing-- as "pseudo-statement," but of course pseudo-statement" is just another expression for what he calls here "fiction."

你会陷入孤立无援的境地,如果你像，Richards一样-,说诗歌是“伪陈述“,当然，这里“伪陈述“只是,“虚构“的另一种说法“

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He says, sort of toward the top of the right-hand column, page 768: It is evident that the bulk of poetry consists of statements which only the very foolish would think of attempting to verify.

右侧栏的上面，Richards写道：,诗歌中显然有大量不真实的陈述,而只有傻子才试图去核实它们。

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Richards To declare Science autonomous is very different from subordinating all our activities to it.

还说道：，Then，he，says：,虽然说科学是自主的,但这并不是说一切都要服从于它。

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Later on Richards changes his vocabulary, and he no longer talks about scientific and emotive language.

后来，Richards换了一种说法，他不在使用科学或者情感类的语言。

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It is in fact, Richards goes so far as to say, following Plato, lying.

实际上，Richards赞同Plato的观点，认为诗歌是在撒谎。

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As I say, this is the sense in which Empson follows Richards.

我认为，在这个方面Empson和Richards观点一致。

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This is the intellectual focus, in other words, of Richards' work.

这是Richards作品关注的理性焦点。

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That could be the motto for Richards' work.

这句话也是Richards作品的精髓。

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There, you see, he diverges from his teacher, Richards.

这就是他和他的老师Richards的区别。

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Just as Richards says, there's always something kind of archaic or atavistic about poetic thinking. It's not just that - it's not trying to tell the truth, as Sidney said-- "nothing lieth because it never affirmeth."

就像Richards说的，关于诗意的思考，总有些事情过时了,诗歌并非,拒绝陈述事实，正如Sidney说的-,“没有伪造的东西因为一切都不是真的“

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The reason this fulfillment is important and can be valued is, - according to Richards, that these needs-- unless they are organized or harmonized so that they work together in what he sometimes calls a "synthesis"-- can actually tear us apart.

这种满足之所以重要而有价值是因为，根据Richards的观点，我们的需求-,如果没有被和谐地组织起来,形成一个综合体-,它们会将我们粉碎。

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