The virtual work of the reader does not involve surprise, does not involve the violation of expectations.

读者的虚功中没有惊讶，也没有期望的违背。

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Now in order to illustrate the way in which what Iser calls virtual work gets done in this regard, let me just run through a few passages quickly.

现在，为了阐释,在这点上，伊瑟尔所说的虚功是怎样做的，下面我们来快速地浏览几段话。

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It's neither in the text nor in the reader but the result of the negotiation back and forth between the text and the reader, he says, that sort of brings the literary work into existence in a virtual space.

它不在文本中，也不在读者的视域中,而在反复阅读文本和读者的视域之中，他说，那样会把文学作品,放到一个虚拟的空间中去。

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