这篇短文的语体风格突然从正式转为非正式。

The essay suddenly switches from a formal to an informal register.

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在每段短文的末尾，你会听到三到四个问题。

At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions.

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过了很久我才见到这些短文的作者。

It was a long time before I met the author of the notes.

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So what I think we get from these two little readings today is a sense of where literature finds itself at a kind of crossroads.

所以我们今天要从这两篇短文里认识到,文学在十字路口所处的位置。

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You've read the short article he has in the Jewish Study Bible, but he's also written about this at great length in other places.

你们已经读到过他在《犹太读经》里的短文，在其他的地方他也写过这些伟大的语句。

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But I hesitantly took two hours to fill that essays and now owe her for or owe that phone call for the best two years of my life and truly the happiest.

但我还是磨蹭了两小时完成短文,多亏那个打来电话的人,这是我人生最美好，最快乐的两年。

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