It's just fascinating as a reader and an interviewer to be taken into other communities.

做个读者或者采访者确实很有吸引力,因为你能进入别的群体当中。

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Until you're a proficient reader of a language, writing in our language is a fool's errand.

你只有成为一个熟练的读者，才有可能成为一个好的作者。

英语阅读：技巧 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So I'm standing in for you, right, if you are the subsequent reader? -Yes.

所以说我也扮演着你的角色，假设你是读者，-不错。

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You can be the strong reader.

你可以是强者！你可以成为强大的读者。

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Milton is much more likely imagined to wield - and if you have any sense of what the mythology surrounding Milton is, you would have to agree with this - a socially conservative power over his readers.

现在，大家更可能认为弥尔顿,-如果你对弥尔顿时代的神学有点了解的话，你就会同意这一点,-大家认为弥尔顿向读者传达的是社会保守思潮。

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Right, OK. So what I do to open the book is to ask the reader to image that they walking past a shallow pond, maybe somewhere in the park or or university campus.

好的，我在这本书的开篇,请读者想象这样一个画面，你走过,一个浅浅的池塘，可能是公园里,或是大学校园里。

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And when you come to read it, what you're putting yourself in my position, as it were, and you are partaking of precisely the same activity as I "the first writer-reader" was.

而当你阅读时，换句话说，当你代替了我的角色时，你的阅读活动其实和我这个,第一个作者与读者的活动相同。

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But then I ask them to think, and in the book I ask the readers to think: Well, have you given a cost of an expensive pair of shoes to save the life of one of the around 9 million children who are dying from poverty related causes each year around the world?

但是，接着我让他们思考，在书中，我让读者思考这样一个问题：,你有没有捐出过买一双鞋的钱,来拯救900万儿童中的一个生命？,他可能正因为贫困导致的种种问题,而生命垂危，每年世界上都会有这样的儿童？

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