In other words, we no longer say, "How does the author exert autonomous will with respect to the subject matter being expressed?"

换言之，我们不会再说，“作者是如何在尊重所要表达的主题的前提下,把独立的意愿加进去的？“

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And I end up going back and doing unit testing anyway, to try and figure out why it doesn't work. So over the years, I've just convinced myself I might as well start where I'm going to end up.

第一次从来不会正常运行,因此无论如何我还要回头去做单元测试,找找哪儿出错了，因此经过这么多年，我已经说服自己既然一定要做单元测试,那么还是一开始就做最好了。

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How can we protect ourselves ? from the passion for injustice?

我们如何保护自己,不会因激情而导致不公？

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You don't really puzzle your head about questions of interpretation, how we determine the validity of interpretation and so on, until A) meaning becomes terribly important to you, and B) the ascertainment of meaning becomes difficult.

你一般不会在诠释，和如何确定诠释的正确与否，这样的问题上纠结，除非：1，意义对你来说很重要，2，确定意义很困难。

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we're not going to talk about the funeral industry in America and how it rips off people, which it does, in their moments of grief and weakness and overcharges them for the various things that it offers.

我们也不会讨论美国的丧葬行业,以及他们如何敲诈百姓，实际上就是这样，在他们悲伤脆弱的时候,对他们提供的各种服务漫天要价。

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You're not going to have a writer spending a month on the representation of a barber from Kasbeam.

这个作者才不会花一个月的时间,在如何表现一个从Kasbeam来的理发师上下功夫。

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And typically, I'm not going to just search once in a list, I'm going to search multiple times.

还要考虑我要如何去使用它？,我不会对一个列表只做一次搜索。

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