"All this,in turn, requires something else, which is something more fundamental.

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Look, when somebody's asleep, we need to do something to, in effect, wake them up, something to turn the functioning back on.

当某人熟睡时，我们需要做些什么才能叫醒他们，做些什么才能恢复他们的功能。

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All right. Let's hope we can free our minds of these matters now and turn to something a little more substantive, which is the question--before we plunge in to Gadamer really: what is hermeneutics?

现在让我们把思想从这些事物中解放出来,转向更实质性的问题，在我们探讨伽达默尔之前：,曾提出这样一个问题：诠释学是什么？

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Again and again and again he quotes Levi-Strauss in confirmation of his own arguments, only then in a way to turn on him by pointing out that there is something even in what he's saying there that he hasn't quite thought through.

他一遍又一遍地引用列维，斯特劳斯的观点,来支持自己论点，在批驳其论点时也只是指出,他在某点上,考虑不够全面。

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