That is to say, he is in a certain sense book- and language-determined, and he's obscurely aware that this is his problem even as it's a source of pride for him.

意思就是，某种程度上他的意志是由书籍和语言决定的，他也模模糊糊地明白即便这是他引以为豪的,同时也是他的一个问题。

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In other words, I'm arguing that the saturation of these speeches with signs of words, language, speaking, words, books, is just the dilemma of the character.

换言之，我认为这些演讲之所以会充斥着,字词，语言，言论和书籍，其实只是一种进退维谷的困境。

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Here's the editor, great editor of the publisher Faber & Faber, thirty years later, or more, surrounded by books, ; the cultural arbiter of the English speaking world; T.S. Eliot at sixty.

0年后，这就是费伯-费伯出版社的大编辑，被成堆的书籍包围着，被视为英语语言世界的文化标尺;,这就是60岁的艾略特。

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