Now, I think there's a deliberate confusion here about these lines because their precise historical significance isn't what's most significant.

这里有一个刻意而为的困惑,是关于这些句子中严谨的历史意义的,而不是关于什么是最重要的。

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Which event do you think is the most important in U.S. history?

你觉得美国历史上最重要的部分是什么？

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All right. Now the question, "How does literary theory relate to the history of criticism?"

现在我们来思考这个问题：,“文学理论和评论的历史有什么联系？

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Well,if hedge funds first became mainstream maybe fifteen years ago, then what are you looking at in terms of history?

如果对冲基金,在15年前就变成主流,那么你会在它们的历史记录中看到什么呢

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Its composition is influenced and determined by literary conventions and goals. Now, of course we all know that there is no such thing as purely objective history anyway. We have no direct access to past events.

它的形成是受文学的惯例和目的影响和决定的,当然现在我们都知道了没有什么是纯客观的历史,我们没有直接通向过去事件的途径。

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What kind of knowledge, if any, can be had from the shattering experiences of revolution or rape, those models of history that I proposed last time?

什么知识能从我上次讲到的,历史形式的的粉碎性的经验里，比如革命或者强奸里获得？

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It's seeking to ascertain the meaning of events to draw larger philosophical, ideological conclusions from the events of history, and to point to the larger purpose or design of history, not to say just what happened, but to say why it happened and what it means for us today that it did happen.

它致力于查明事件的意义,得出哲学性的思想性的结论，从历史事件中，并且指出历史图景中的宏观目的，不说发生了什么，而阐明为什么它会发生,而它发生了对于今天的我们有何意义。

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The bad prejudice is when we leap to the conclusion, without thinking for a moment that there might be some other historical horizon, that we know what plastic means.

坏先见就是我们直接得出结论，也没有想一下,可能有其他的历史背景，就觉得我们知道plastic是什么了。

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