In our first Yeats lecture, I was talking about Yeats's early development and stylistic transformation over the course of, roughly,a twenty-, twenty-five year period.

在我们讲叶芝的第一节课，我谈到叶芝的早期发展,以及他创作风格的转变，在大约20到25年的时间里。

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All right. Now de Man's early career was influenced -I'm not speaking of the very early career in which he wrote these articles, but the early career involving the essays which were collected in his first book, Blindness and Insight.

好了，德曼的早期事业被影响到了,我不是指最早的时期,他写这些文章的时期,而是指收集在他在创作第一本书里的论文的这个事业早期，他的第一本书叫，《盲点与洞见》

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