"We don't understand how come a mediator who was supposed to defend the cause of democracy will help us to embrace something we've been fighting for nine months, thinking that we were willing or keen to accept a token of gratitude from the general,".

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He is exclusively concerned with fiction and how we read fiction, how we come to understand fiction, and how we determine the meaning of a work of fiction.

他只关注文学，以及我们怎样读文学，怎样来理解文学，怎样确定一部文学作品的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Then we realize once again that we can only know what it is if we come to understand--in this case, probably, it's best to say a cultural system, understood as a semiosis, within which it appears.

这样我们就又明白了,只有在一个特定的文化系统中,我们才能认识一个符号。

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The modern state, as we have come to understand it, is based upon the separation of civil society from governing authority.

我们所了解的现代国家，是根据,区隔公民社会与统治当局的角度来看。

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Again, you probably didn't come expecting to hear about farming, but farming is where the food starts and we need to understand that world.

同样地,你们可能没听说过农业,农业是食品的起点,我们需要了解这个领域

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We'll come back to that, but you have to understand the structure of Newtonian mechanics.

我们等下回头再讲,不过你们要理解牛顿力学的体系框架

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