At times, we will play the historian, at times we will be literary critics.

有时，我们会从历史学家的角度来看，有时，会像文学评论家。

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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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How does this work as literature?"

从文学的角度看这写的怎么样？”

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First of all, Empson doesn't really kind of settle into - a sense that it's all about the reader-- that is to say, that it's all about the reader's experience of the literary.

首先，Empson并没有真正,从读者角度考虑问题-,也就是说,没有从读者的文学经历上考虑。

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