So did you approach Professor Katz and say "we have this idea we really would like to promote"? At least a discussion and the academic study of what it looks like.

那你是主动联系Katz教授,跟他说，我有这样一个想法,我们很想推行么？，至少讨论,并且做了学术上的研究，了解课程的内容。

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Because, uh, it's one thing to study something in a cold, academic way,

干巴巴的、枯燥的纯理论式学习是一种学习方法，

想学好英语吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Like the Russian formalists--and in a way like the New Critics -talking about their "academic" colleagues, Saussure is vexed by the messiness and lack of system in the study of linguistics.

这一点和形式主义者，新批评论者,这些学院派的人们很相像，索绪尔对语言学的杂乱,和无章感到恼火。

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