He is exclusively concerned with fiction and how we read fiction, how we come to understand fiction, and how we determine the meaning of a work of fiction.

他只关注文学，以及我们怎样读文学，怎样来理解文学，怎样确定一部文学作品的意义。

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It tells you that any attempt to try to specify, to localize the position of an electron in such a system is futile.

这说明你试着任何尝试关于，使一个电子在这样一个系统中,确定其明确的位置是没有意义的。

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You may say to yourself, "Well, isn't it always the case that meaning is important and that meaning is hard to construe?"

你可能这样说：,“难道意义不是一直都很重要的吗？,确定意义不是一直都很困难吗？“

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I'm not certain it's meaningful, unless you are in the habit of giving your furniture personal names.

我不确定它有意义，除非你们热衷于,给你们的家具起名字。

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You don't really puzzle your head about questions of interpretation, how we determine the validity of interpretation and so on, until A) meaning becomes terribly important to you, and B) the ascertainment of meaning becomes difficult.

你一般不会在诠释，和如何确定诠释的正确与否，这样的问题上纠结，除非：1，意义对你来说很重要，2，确定意义很困难。

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