That is to say for many, many, many people literary theory had something to do with the end of civilization as we know it.
这就是说对于很多很多人来说,文学理论与,我们所知道的文明的结束有些关联。
Whereas we all know that the universe is of a certain kind-- -- we can't even call it Copernican anymore-- poetry has this odd preference for Ptolemaic astronomy.
虽然我们都知道宇宙是怎样的-,现在即使哥白尼的理论也不完全正确了-,但是诗歌偏爱托勒密的宇宙观。
The Elder Brother is issuing this theory without any consideration, - obviously, whatsoever of earthly reality and we're shocked by -- I don't know how else to put it.
大哥没有经过任何思考就提出了这个理论,显然,尘世间的任何事实都让我们震惊了-,我不知道怎么去说。
Nobody knows, but there's a theory which won't answer your question but will put it into a broader context.
没有人知道答案,但有这么个理论,它无法回答你的问题,但却能让你从更宽广的视角来看这个问题
Why aren't I allowing the soul theory to say, "Don't blame us. We don't know how to explain it yet."
而又为什么不允许灵魂理论说,别责怪我们,我们只是还不知道怎么去解释
The earnings, you understand, are kind of a theoretical concept but dividend is the money that we send out.
你们都知道,收益是个理论概念,但股利是我们分发出去的钱
The theory doesn't try to explain why they separated. We don't know Perhaps it was disaffection.
这一理论并着力解释他们为什么分离,我们不知道,也许是因为逆反之意。
He knew things that I don't know, he has a genius for formulating theories, and helping people make discoveries, that I can't do in science.
他知道我所不知道的事情,他是创造理论的天才,帮助别人做探究,这些我在科学领域做不到。
Honor to so many of us sounds quaint, like an honor code or the Boy Scouts' code or something like that or something primitive, some kind of primitive ethic which we therefore don't really understand.
荣誉,对我们中大多数而言,听起来都会很奇怪,这就像是在说荣誉代码,童子军守则或一些类似的东西一样,亦或是一些非常原始的理论,以致于我们根本不知道这是在说什么。
One that seems to be in fashion these days, although you never know how long the fashion lasts, is: internal uprisings that somehow these monarchical areas, when life got tough, the people must have risen up against them.
有一个理论现在很流行,虽然不知道流行了多久,那就是认为,这些王国中起义的内部原因是,当民生困苦时,人们就必然奋起反抗
Like in any other invention, nobody knows what will work and abstract theory doesn't guide you completely.
正如其他的创新一样,没有人知道哪些是可行的,有时候理论完全无法指导实践
Many of the issues that I raised in talking about defining literature are as relevant for literary criticism as they are for literary theory, and yet we all instinctively know that these are two very different enterprises.
当讨论文学的定义时,我提出的许多问题,对于文学理论和文学评论都同样相关,但我们都知道,它们是两个不同的概念。
Some people in less-developed countries feel uncomfortable that they are just slavishly copying other, more advanced countries; but, they have to recognize that is what everybody has been doing all along.
欠发达国家的人,对他们模仿其他发达国家的理论发明,感到不安;,但是他们应该知道,大家一直都在这么做。
This can be taken to extremes and the biggest extreme is the case of actors, which is if there's ever a case-- Anybody know who this is, the actor?
这个理论最极端的例子,就发生在演员身上,如果要举个例子…,大家知道这个演员是谁吗?
Different theories might have different explanations as to-- are these things valuable because we want them, ? or do we want them because we recognize they're valuable?
不同的理论可能会有不同的解释-,这些东西有价值是因为我们想得到它们,还是我们知道这些东西有价值所以才想要?
when I was explaining it to Professor Shiller, he said he didn't quite follow it, so I probably shouldn't try it, and he knows more than I do.
当我向席勒教授解释它的时候,他说他不能完全理解这一理论,所以我很可能不应该尝试它,他知道的比我多。
We have to understand the way in which what we do and say, what we write in our papers and articles, is grounded in theoretical premises which, if we don't come to terms with them, we will simply naively reproduce without being fully aware of how we're using them and how, indeed, they are using us.
我们所为,所说,和在论文中所写的内容,是以一些理论,为前提的,如果不接受这些理论,那我们就不过是天真地重复,根本不知道,我们是如何利用它们的。
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