We can't possibly know what the author meant except on the basis of our determination of the meaning of the text, so why not just focus our attention to meaning on the text?

我们无法知道作者是什么意思,除非以我们对文本意思的分析为基础，因此，为什么不仅仅将我们的注意力,集中在文本的意思上呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

sure there are differences. We see that our manuscripts are not exactly like those fragments, but there is a remarkable degree, a high degree of correspondence so that we really can speak of a relatively stable textual tradition but still some fluidity.

当然其中会有差异，我们手中的这些原稿,一定和那些片段有细微差异，但在很大的程度上,我们能说是和那文本传统大致相符的,但还是存在一些差异。

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You go to ABI Inform, which is one of the things that Yale subscribes to, on your laptop and it puts you right into the text of The Wall Street Journal.

BI/INFORM世界著名的商业经济管理期刊全文图像数据库,那是耶鲁所订阅的信息来源,它会在电脑上直接以文本形式显示,《华尔街日报》的内容

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