That needs to be understood. But this time, we need to put the story of emancipation at the center of this narrative, because what really transformed the United States, were not those battles.

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But how did Plato intend this dialogue to be understood? Note that Socrates never defends himself by reference to the doctrine of unlimited free speech.

但柏拉图到底想要这场辩证,如何被理解呢？请注意,苏格拉底的自辩从未援引,无限自由言论学说。

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As we'll learn from Jakobson next week, literature can be understood--or what he calls the study of literature, "poetics"--can be understood as a subfield of semiotics, but semiotics is not in itself a literary theory.

下周我们学雅各布森的时候也会看到，文学可以被理解为，诗学，即符号学的一个分支，但是符号学不是文学理论。

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It's a little bit like Aristotle's idea of catharsis, which can be understood in a variety of ways, but Milton at the end of Samson Agonistes understands it in one way when he says, Now we have as a result of this tragedy "calm of mind, all passion spent."

这有点像亚里士多德的精神发泄法理论，我们可以通过各种方法来理解，但是米尔顿在《力士参孙》一书的结尾,有另一种理解，他写道，这个悲剧使我们拥有了,“平静的精神，耗尽的热情“

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