By extension we have our attempt as readers to arrive at an understanding of the first two books in general.

延伸开来，我们作为作者，试图,达成对这两卷书的大体上的理解。

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We no longer appeal, in other words, to the authority of the author as the source of the meaning that we find in the text.

换言之，我们也不会再诉求作者的权威,把它作为我们在原文中找到的原意。

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As a conversation, as a dialogue, it is something the author wants us to join, to take part in.

作为一段会话，一场对话，作者要我们参与对谈，融入其中。

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And my job as a writer is to stand in for you as a subsequent reader.

作为一名作者，我的职责,是站在你们读者的角度上考虑问题。

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This is 1969, and the purpose that's alleged for appealing to the author as a paternal source, as an authority, is, according to both Barthes and Foucault, to police the way texts are read.

这是1969年，断言把作者作为一种,父性的资源，一种权威的目的，根据巴特和福柯的说法，是为了监督文本被阅读的方式。

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