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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In other words, we said that in intellectual history, first you get this movement of concern about the distance between the perceiver and the perceived, a concern that gives rise to skepticism about whether we can know things as they really are.

换言之，我们曾说过在思想史上，首先你要知道,关注感知者和被感知者之间距离的运动，这种关注会让我们怀疑,自己是否弄清楚了事物的本来面目。

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As I said the other day if that Confederate flag would just go away, just vanish, just stick it in the basement of museums and no one would ever care about it anymore, maybe, maybe the South's burden would go away.

正如我前段时间说过的,除非南北战争的邦联旗能够消失,被放进博物馆的地下室,再也没有任何人去关注它,那南方历史的阴影可能就真的不复存在了

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