In other words, the effort of a reader in coming to terms with the meaning of a text is an effort to master the subject matter, what is there, what the text is really about.

也就是说读者为理解文本,做出的努力,就是来掌握事情本身，存在的努力，掌握文本究竟是关于什么的努力。

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