I'm just going back and forth meaninglessly because I'm never going to get anyplace." Right?

我来回穿梭于文本中毫无意义,因为我永远不会真正地理解它，是吗？

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We don't have an enormous difficulty grasping them, and it doesn't seem to me that our capability of grasping irony is founded on a necessary, underlying agreement.

我们在理解时不会用很大困难，而且我认为，我们理解讽刺的能力,是建立在必要的，潜在的共识之上的。

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We're not going to talk about those details in the class here; I want you to sort of understand this really at the level that I've described it here.

我们课上不会讨论太多细节,我希望你们的理解能达到,我所讲到的水平就好

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