We call it a function. That is to say it has a function; it has a function within our understanding of the way in which a text has structure.

我们之所以称之为功能是因为它有功能;,我们文本结构的角度,去认识这种功能。

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He actually recognized and, of course, many people recognized that this jellyfish was fluorescent, and he isolated the actual protein, and determined and proved that this protein was sufficient to cause this fluorescence.

他认识到了，当然，很多人都认识到了水母是有萤光的，它分离出了这种蛋白质，测定了它并证明,这种蛋白质会导致萤光。

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Well, it doesn't get very precise but it has the intuitive concept.

当然这种阐述还不精确,但已经有了直觉的认识

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It's kind of unsettling because we like to know what things are, but at the same time it's not really a big problem because as long as we know about the fact that a certain notion of literature exists in certain communities we can begin to do very interesting work precisely with that idea.

可能会有点让人不安，因为我们总想知道事物的定义，但知不知道,实际上问题不大,只要我们知道在特定群体中对文学有特定的认识,我们就能在这种认识上做文章。

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