reciting the text, emoting over it, enthusing about it, - and then looking around for something else to say-- it was no longer a question of doing that.

或者只是背诵篇子，装模作样地读一读，假装很感兴趣，然后没话找话的评论一番-,现在意义上的精读可不是这样的了。

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There's no other way to interpret these lines which, as you can imagine, critics simply pretend don't exist, ? because who can figure out what to say?

这几句只能这样解释，可以想见，评论家会将这段直接忽略掉，因为他们又能说什么呢？

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Why do they say all of these terrible things about writing?

他们为什么这样恐怖地评论文字？

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Well, now maybe the important thing is to allow Brooks to comment on that so that you can see how he makes use of Freud's idea and move us a little bit closer to the application of these ideas to the structure of a literary plot or of a fictional plot.

现在最重要的事是允许布鲁克斯对此加以评论,这样一来你们就能看到他是怎样运用弗洛伊德的观点,并且进一步将其运用于,文学情节或小说情节的结构中去。

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