I don't know a unit of language which I use to communicate with you positively.

我不是主动地知道,交际用的语言单位。

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Physically attractive people are thought to be smarter, more competent, more social and nicer.

长得好看的人会被视为更聪明，更有能力，更会交际，更友善。

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It is an aspect of a text, the way in which it does communicate in other words, which has to be understood as existing in a dynamic, functional relationship with those aspects of the text in which literariness is dominant.

它是文本的一部分，它有生动的，交际功能，但是从文学根本上来说,但诗化语言支配着它。

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Now, some of you who are very cynical and/or very good looking might wonder "yes, but good-looking people like me actually are smarter, more competent, more social and morally better."

有些持怀疑态度,同时可能又长得很好看的同学可能会想,“像我这样长得好看的人确实更聪明，更有能力，更会交际，更有道德“

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