All right. Now the question, "How does literary theory relate to the history of criticism?"

现在我们来思考这个问题：,“文学理论和评论的历史有什么联系？

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He's known by his action in the world in historical time and his relationship with a historical people.

他之所以闻名是因为他在历史上所做的事,以及与历史上著名人物之间的联系。

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Why is history and memory sometimes a deep family matter, to Southerners?

为什么对于南方人来说,历史,有时是和记忆紧密联系在一起的

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Now, one of the points I made last week, for those of you who were here, is that one of the themes that ties European history together is the growth of the modern state, of state-making.

上节课来了的人可能记得,我谈到一个观点,现代国家的形成和民族国家的构建,是联系欧洲历史的一个主题

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We also have etymological legends, because they're explaining the name of something. It's given this particular name because of an etymomological connection with some event earlier.

我们还有词源传说，它们用于解释,一些事物的名称，它以这个特定的名字命名是因为,它和更早期的历史事件有着词源方面的联系。

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It sums it all up: introduction, who I am, and why we are historically connected.

在介绍中，总结了全部，关于我是谁，以及为什么我们会有历史性的联系。

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