My belief in books had risen more out of a sense of desperation than from my abiding conviction of their ultimate value.

我对书的信仰更多的是来自一种绝望,而非我对其本质的长期依赖，“

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It's a social experience, in this view, and the social experience is intrinsically a conservative one.

读诗是一种社会经历，这种社会经历本质又是保守的。

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I think it's his way of formulating a view about the nature of time.

我想这是他对时间的本质的,一种阐释。

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I think there is an essential sort of imperialism.

我认为有这样一种本质帝国主义的存在。

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And lying behind this idea, I think, is the claim, the intuition, that it's a presumption to judge whose pleasures are intrinsically higher or worthier or better.

我认为这一观点暗含了一种主张，认为从本质上判定，谁的快乐,更高级，更有价值，或更好是非常无礼的。

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