And he claimed it causes an unpleasant emotional state, what he described as "dissonance."

他认为这会让人进入一种情绪不安的状态，他称之为“失调”

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They seem fretful.

看起来让人烦躁不安。

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These results are surprising and disturbing and I said there is work to be done at an individual and group level and this young man challenged me to be more explicit about that.

这些结果都出乎意料，而且让人不安,我说过个人和群体都要下功夫,这位同学要我明确地说怎样下功夫。

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It's kind of unsettling because we like to know what things are, but at the same time it's not really a big problem because as long as we know about the fact that a certain notion of literature exists in certain communities we can begin to do very interesting work precisely with that idea.

可能会有点让人不安，因为我们总想知道事物的定义，但知不知道,实际上问题不大,只要我们知道在特定群体中对文学有特定的认识,我们就能在这种认识上做文章。

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