We are, in other words, attempting to grasp it in a sentence that might read something like, "What the author means to say is--" Right?

换言之，我们在尝试着在这样一句话中掌握它，作者想说的是--，是吧？

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by a really famous writer who I've totally forgotten the name of.

它的作者是一个非常出名的作家，我完全忘了他的名字了。

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Like I said, they wanted them to be traced back to the apostles.

就像我所说的，作者希望人们认为它是使徒所写。

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But to speak of an intentional structure as a center is not at all the same thing as to speak of an intending person, author, being, or idea that brought it into existence, because that's extraneous.

但是讲到一个作为中心的意向性结构,与讲到一个创造它的人，作者，存在，或概念是完全不同的，因为那是外来的。

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It's moving and just about everyone concedes that at many junctures it's extraordinarily learned - it's obviously learned, but it's also very moving.

它很感人，几乎每个人都会认同,在诗的多处都体现出了它的作者是很博学的,-很明显它的作者很博学，同时这首诗也很感人。

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That is to say, if something causes literature, there must be some sort of authority behind it and therefore we find ourselves asking, "What is an author?"

即是说，如果文学有缘由的，它的背后一定存在作者,所以我们会问，“作者是谁？“

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That is Hirsch's other key position, and we can understand it by saying something like this: the meaning of a text is what the author intended it to mean -that is to say, what we can establish with a reliable paraphrase.

这就是赫施的另一个重要观点，我们可以这样理解它：,文章的意思是作者想要表达的,即我们通过适当的释意能够想到的。

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