If you start listing all the things worth having in life, it might seem as though you couldn't possibly come to any general organizing principles.

假设你开始列出人生中值得拥有的东西，你似乎不可能,总结出一个概括性的组织准则。

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More is said about this in the book I just include it here as an example, but it's sort of beyond the scope of what I wanted to talk about today.

在书上讲了很多这方面的内容,在这里我只是将其作为例子概括性地讲讲,但这已经超出我今天想讲的范围了

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In other words, we can't use genre either as a blanket term; one of the most influential people in persuading us that there's no such thing as literature, legal texts, theological texts, philosophical texts, or scientific texts.

话句话说，我们不能将体裁用做一个概括性称呼;,主张没有文学，法律文本,哲学文本，或是科学文本中，最具影响的人物之一。

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In other words, Freud, Sophocles, all of the other versions I have at my disposal, have equal merit as versions, but none of them is a transcendental signified, none of them is a blanket term, and none of them is the causal explanation or meaning of the myth.

换句话说，弗洛伊德，索福克勒斯，还有所有其它供我使用的版本，都用同样的优点，但它们中没有一个是超验所指，没有一个是概括性话语，没有一个是神话的随意解释或意义。

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I mean a blanket term, a guiding concept, a transcendental signified, something that explains the nature of the structure and something also, as Derrida says, which allows for limited free play within the structure; but at the same time the structure has this kind of boundary nature.

是一个概括性称呼，一个引领概念，一个超验所指，它解释了这个结构的内涵，正如德里达所说，它允许在结构内有限的自由游戏;,但同时这个结构也有限性。

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