Ecclesiastes reads like an existentialist writing from the twentieth century.

传道书》读起来简直就像,二十世纪实存主义的作品。

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Close reading, the idea that you could take a text and do things with it--that the interpretation of a text wasn't just a matter of saying, "Oh, yes, it's about this and isn't it beautiful?"

当你拿到一篇文章之后,你所能做的不只是说些像,“哦，这是关于这个的，它读起来，是不是很美啊“之类的话“

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It reads almost exactly like the prologues to these ancient collections.

读起来几乎就像那些古代法律资料集的序言。

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