We use a text to find meaning in something that we don't have available to us.

我们通过文本才能了解一些,我们不得而知的东西的含义。

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Is it universal wisdom? Romantic psychology? We shall never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin.

是否是普遍的哲学？还是浪漫的心理？我们都不得而知，因为写作就是对每个意见，每点原创的破坏。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

No idea why he wanted to study saliva, but he then discovered something.

他研究唾液分泌的初衷我们不得而知，但他却因为这个研究而有所发现。

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It don't know. What is true about O'Connor is that she was trained to write stories like this. Flannery O'Connor--and this is, again, that context coming in--Flannery O'Connor was a student at the Iowa Writers Workshop, a very prestigious writing program.

这不得而知，奥克纳其实一直被这么训练来,写故事，弗兰瑞-奥克纳，又一次，这个，背景，弗兰瑞-奥克纳是溢价,爱荷华州写作讲习班的学员，一个非常出名的写作项目。

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