Because we don't really consider Western Literature to have an actual closed canon of authoritative texts.

因为我们并不认为西方文学,具有权威文本的固定标准。

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Then later on, if I wish, I can establish a canon by saying certain texts have certain significance and those are the texts that I care about and want to read, but I can only do that if I can distinguish between meaning and significance.

而后来，如果我希望，我可以通过说什么来树立一个标准,比如说，一些作品有固定意义,因此我只关心只想读那些作品，但是我只有,能够分清意思和意义之后，才能那样做。

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You hadn't had,yet,the creeds that would try to settle these things for good, like you did in the third and fourth century--the fourth century.

你没有固定的判断标准,可以永远解决这些事情，它不像主后第四世纪。

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What that means, Kaufman asserts, is that in pagan religion there's very often a fluid boundary between the divine, the human, and the natural worlds. They blur into one another because they all emerge ultimately from the same primordial world stuff.

考夫曼认为，在异教概念里,神族、人类和自然世界的划分标准通常是不固定的，三者之间互相影响，因为从根本上来说,它们都是从同一个世界本源上发展而来。

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