We can't possibly know what the author meant except on the basis of our determination of the meaning of the text, so why not just focus our attention to meaning on the text?

我们无法知道作者是什么意思,除非以我们对文本意思的分析为基础，因此，为什么不仅仅将我们的注意力,集中在文本的意思上呢？

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So we can tell that the writer of the Ephesians seems to have been a different author.

所以我们可以判定以弗所书的写信人,似乎是另一位作者。

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that after Lolita.) But what I mean is that the reader must know when and where to contribute his imagination, and this he does by trying to get clear the specific world the author places at his disposal.

有些人可能就会那样想）,但我的意思是,读者必须知道何时何地需要发挥想像力,这样以看清作者所设置的特定的世界,在这篇小品文中。

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Pseudonymous means it's published with a false name, a false author attributed.

笔名的意思是用一个假名发表，以一个假作者的名义。

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