When you're depressed, there are these, well, we could call them experiences, though the word "experience" is also somewhat ambiguous.

当你沮丧时,会有那些我们可以称之为体验的感觉,虽然"体验"一词也比较含糊

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Now in addition to defining literature, literary theory also asks questions obviously not unrelated but which open up the field somewhat.

除了定义文学以外，文学理论还提出一些,显然不是不相关，却开辟了新领域的问题。

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