There's a sense of aliveness and energy, and in scientific terms everything is pure energy, so it's not that far-fetched.

有一种生机和能量，用科学的话来说，万物都是纯粹的能量，因此上面说法也不为过。

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You want to think about how much attention and primacy we should give to an author's statements about what her work mean--as readers.

对于作者对自己作品的阐述和说明,我们怎么注意,怎么给予优先度也不为过。

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His memory has failed him and, given the general importance that I'm attributing to problems of remembering and forgetting, I think it's safe to assume that something important is going on here.

他的记忆背叛了他并且让我在这里提出的,关于记忆与遗忘的问题变得重要起来，我想假设这里有某种重要的事情发生了并不为过。

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