The subject matter itself becomes the dominant device, and it implies in your imagination a way to construct it, but the way to construct it is not the dominant.

但是在奥布莱恩的文章里，主题被首先给出，主题占支配地位，在想象中引导你构建情节。

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We'll say a little bit about Beyond the Pleasure Principle, ; which is the crucial text for our purposes; but plainly apart from the influence of and the ideas borrowed from Freud, you'll find Brooks writing on what for you is pretty familiar turf.

我想花一点点时间说说《超越快乐原则》,这篇文章对于我们今天理解主题至关重要;,但是如果不看从弗洛伊德那里借来的思想和影响外，布鲁克斯所写的对于你们来说应该会很熟悉。

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And stimulus generalization is the topic of one of your articles in The Norton Reader, the one by Watson, John Watson, the famous behaviorist, who reported a bizarre experiment with a baby known as Little Albert.

刺激泛化是,《诺顿读本》中一篇文章的主题，作者为约翰·华生，著名的行为主义者，他记述了一项奇怪的实验,对象则是一名叫做小阿尔伯特的婴儿。

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Consider one thinker, and I will, I'm going to read you a short passage and I'm going to come back to this again later in the semester, from Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, chapter 31 of Leviathan, where Hobbes gives us a very personal statement about his intention in writing this book.

细想以下这一位思想家，我将朗读一小段文章,然后在学期后段,再回到这个主题来，这是取自贺伯斯的《利维坦》,第，31，章，贺伯斯提供了十分贴切的陈述,关于他撰写本书的动机。

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The essay that you read in its entirety for today, "Structure, Sign and Play in the Language of the Human Sciences," was delivered on the occasion of a conference about "the sciences of man" at Johns Hopkins University in 1966.

今天我们要读的是一整篇文章，名为《人文科学话语中的结构、符号和游戏》,这篇文章发表于1966年,在约翰普金斯大学召开的一个会议上，会议主题是“人类科学“

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This much, by the way, Wimsatt has in common with Gadamer, because Gadamer doesn't talk much about authors either, and Gadamer is interested in what he calls meaning, the subject matter, die Sache. Right? He's not interested in your sort of expression of that meaning or my expression of that meaning.

顺便说一句，文萨特和葛达玛很大相同之处就在于，葛达玛也不太强调作者的作用，而是对文章的含义，主题感兴趣，不是吗？，他不关注作品在用,你的还是我的表达方式来表现内涵。

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