Baudelaire regarded photography as "a very humble servant of art and science"; a medium largely unable to transcend "external reality".

波德莱尔认为摄影是“艺术和科学的一个非常卑微的仆人”；是一种很大程度上无法超越“外部现实”的媒介。

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It also shows how this traditional philosophy reduces translation to secondary status and a translator to the status of a faithful servant, a mere conveyor of information and an invisible medium.

在逻格斯中心主义影响下，翻译处于从属地位，译者也只是忠实地传递原文信息，是一种“隐身”的媒介。

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