So I realize that this was among a more childish demonstrations that I could come up with to illustrate this point.

我意识到这个一个很幼稚的演示,我可以举例来说明这一点。

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We, too, understand the relevance of what we call "the society function."] Rather it must be elucidated in its full extent through the problem of the evolution of literature.

你们不要以为我们很幼稚,我们也明白社会功能的意义是什么],但是我们必须用,文学进化的角度来解释它的功能。

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Well, they weren't ignorant undergraduates, but beyond that they drank wine, not those barbarian liquids that you drink, and also they mixed that wine with water, so that it shouldn't get them drunk too fast.

他们可不是幼稚的大学生,他们喝的是美酒,而不是你们喝的那种野蛮液体,同时他们也把酒和水兑在一起喝,这样他们就不至于很快醉倒

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est-ce pas How long ago it seemed and childish! Yet tender too, n'est-ce pas?

看来多么遥远和幼稚啊，然而又是含情脉脉的，n’

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