By the way, if we begin by talking about poetic and practical language, we're beginning where the Russian formalists began.

谈到诗化语言和实用语言，我们就和俄国的形式主义者站到了同一个起点。

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Still, the hedonist isn't saying from a practical point of view we can necessarily do this.

但享乐主义者并非从实用观点称,我们有必要这么做。

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There's an obvious sense in which they understand poetic languageto be that in which form is predominant and practical language to be that in which content is predominant, but the Russian formalists see it in a slightly different way.

他们认为,诗歌中形式占主导,实用语言中内容占主导，但是俄国形式主义者们不这么认为。

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