So the criterion is: is it relevant to the unified form that we as critics are trying to realize in the text?

所以，这里的标准是：,隐含的意义是否和文本的一致性有关,而这正是我们作为文学批评家,要通过文本实现的？

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It slows us down, yes, but this slowing down is a means of enriching what we finally grasp to be the meaning of a text.

它阻碍了我们的阅读,它阻碍了我们的阅读，但是同时也丰富了文本意义。

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The reader projects before himself a meaning for the text as a whole as soon as some initial meaning emerges in the text.

一旦文本开始构成意义读者,就会对整个文本,做出自己的解读。

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It's a question rather of how we know the author to be there, firstly, and secondly, whether or not in attempting we should appeal to the authority of an author.

首先我们如何知道作者在那儿，其次，决定文本意义的时候,如果作者只是一种功能。

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