Even so experimental a book as John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse is totally absorbed in the problem of what it would mean to write about yourself.

就算约翰，巴思的《迷失在游乐场》这么一部实验小说,也在专注一个问题,就是写关于自己经历的意义。

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So you have like, you are focused when you're there.

所以你在那儿的时候才会专注。

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How can a citizen, how can this new kind of citizenship ? that he is proposing, how can any kind of citizenship be devoted ? just to private matters and not public?

公民如何，他所提的这种,新公民社会如何，任何一种公民社会,如何仅专注在私人事件而非公共事务上？

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What does Socrates mean when he says his way of life has been devoted almost exclusively ? to private rather than to public matters?

当苏格拉底说,自己的生活方式,只专注在私人而非公共事务时,是什么意思？

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