Victor Mair, professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania, said character amnesia is part of a “natural process of evolution”.

维克多-梅尔是美国宾夕法尼亚大学汉语言文化教授，他说，文字健忘症是一种自然的进化过程。

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But it was at university that Ms Batuman came around to the idea that Russian - the language and the literature - was the best way to comprehend "the riddle of human behaviour and the nature of love".

但巴图曼是在读大学时，想到Russian——俄语和俄国文学——是理解“人类行为和爱的本质之谜”最好的途径。

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Zhang Tingting, 19, a Chinese language and literature major at Jinan University, is sitting in the staff office watching a Korean soap opera with her professor.

来自暨南大学汉语言文学专业的19岁姑娘，张婷婷，正坐在导师的办公室里和导师一起看韩剧。

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Eleanor Johnson is a professor in the English and Comparative literature department at Columbia University who attributes a growing misuse of language to the explosion of electronic communication.

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That possibility inspired Ms. Dai, the translator, an associate professor and vice dean of the department of Chinese language and literature at Fudan University in Shanghai.

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Professor Nigel Leask, regius professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow, said Burns read widely in the contemporary literature on the subject while he was being trained.

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Oxford came top for English language and literature, philosophy, modern languages and geography in the QS World University Rankings by subject.

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