It's not your horizon; it's not my horizon; it's that effective history which takes place when our horizons merge.

这不是你的视域，也不是我的视域;,而是我们的视域融合时产生的有效历史。

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We just take it for granted that what we're reading is completely within our own horizon and we don't make any effort at all to understand that which is fundamentally or at least in some ways different.

我们想当然地认为,我们读的东西都在自己的视域之中,并不必花费什么精力,去理解那些基本上不同或有些不同的东西。

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You'll probably remember that he says early in the essay that in order to recognize that we are in the presence of something that isn't merely within our own historical horizon, we need to be "pulled up short."

你们大概记得他在论文前面就讲过,为了意识到自己不仅仅在,一些我们时期出现的东西周围，我们需要“突然停下“

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