It has traditional stories and legends, some quite fanciful, Whose goal it is to explain how and why something is what it is.

它讲述了一些传统故事，有一些还极具想象力，它们试图解释事物的形成方式及成因。

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Hermeneutics is, well, more or less by nature and by definition, interested in meaning.

解释学从定义来看，注重事物的含义。

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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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We make inferences to the existence of things we can't see, when doing that helps us to explain something we can't otherwise explain.

我们推断一些看不到的事物的存在,因为这样做可以便于我们,解释某些我们不相信就无法解释的事情

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I suppose what I'm really saying is that the word "hermeneutics" wasn't available, and the idea that there ought to be a sort of a systematic study of how we interpret things wasn't really current.

我想说的是“诠释学“这个词,不是一开始就有的，而应该系统地学习,如何解释事物,这种思想也当时也是没有的。

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Sometimes, we posit the existence of something that we can't see so as to explain something else that we all agree takes place.

有时,我们通过假设,存在某些,我们看不到的事物以解释另一些,我们一致认同存在着的事物

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The thought is that there's something about us that needs explaining.

其思路是,存在一些有关我们自身的亟待解释的事物

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We're going to keep using the things that exist in space, virtual or not, and the things that unfold in time in their relationship with each other as we continue to try to understand these basic principles which shape so much of subsequent literary theory. Thank you.

我们将继续解释事物的存在，无论它们是否可见，我们会学习语言在一段时间里的关系,随着我们继续学习这些基本的概念,我们会进一步理解文学理论，谢谢。

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And for the last lecture or so I've been talking about, in addition to the deprivation account, the additional things that contribute to the badness of death.

大概是上一次课，我一直在讲，除了剥夺解释外，其他导致死亡的坏处的事物。

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