模糊或者古老的定义，可能让你明了这个术语的宽泛或者它在历史中随着语言的变化，意义发生的变迁。

The obscure or archaic definition might help you to appreciate the term's breadth or realize how much its meaning has changed as the language changed.

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首先，我们迫切地需要相信世界有意义，相信每个结果都有原因，每件事发生都有理由。

The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens.

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我的很多病人告诉我，他们的生活曾经是有意义的，但随着时间的推移，事情发生了变化。

So many of my patients tell me that their lives used to have meaning, but that somewhere along the line things went state.

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But if in fact my reading practice can be shown not clearly to distinguish between meaning and significance, well, then that's what would happen.

但如果实际上我的阅读经历不足以让我清晰地,分清楚什么是意思什么是意义，那么，这就是接下来会发生的。

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In other words, something of significance has happened, Mr. Jones, and that is language, right?

换句话说，一些极具意义的事发生了，琼斯先生，那就是语言，是吗？

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This tactile mastery attests to something remarkable that's happened over the course of the poem, somewhere below the surface of the poem, somewhere between the lines.

这种触觉的掌控证明了一些发生在诗歌里的意义非凡的事情,这些事情贯穿诗歌的整体，暗藏在诗歌的表面之下，深埋在字里行间。

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