The formalists are uniquely concerned, however, with the way in which literature is put together.

形式主义者特别关注，文本是怎么被组合的。

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Those titles that Eikhenbaum keeps talking about -How Don Quixote was Made, How Gogol's Overcoat was Made- reflect the preoccupation of the Russian formalists with how literature is put together.

艾肯鲍姆总谈论,堂吉诃德，果戈理的外套是是怎么塑造的-,这反映了俄国形式主义者,对文本组合方式的执着。

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Better to have not had any of it, better to have not been born at all, say the pessimists, than to have this combination package of life followed by death.

最好还是什么都不要有，最好是根本就别出生，悲观主义者如是说，以免有生后即是死这样一个组合。

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