However, many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should possess.

然而，许多美国的顶尖大学希望他们的本科生能够掌握每一个受过教育的人都应该掌握的基本观念。

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That is to say, they're taught as messages, in Guillory's view, whatever form of message it might be. The Western Canon has a message about the importance of being an American.

也就是说，依照Guillory的观点，它们是被当做信息来教授的，不管是什么形式的信息，西方经典有一条寓意就是关于做一个美国人的重要性。

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There he is, the handsome Bostonian, summoning a generation to service and a nation to greatness, in a speech that would become part of the American Canon.

他——一位英俊的波士顿人——就在那里，以一篇后来成为美国行为准则一部分的演说，呼唤一代人为他人奉献，呼唤整个国家创造伟大业绩。

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Meanwhile, a new generation of Western collectors is emerging, and they're looking outside the European and American canon.

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