In fact, Gadamer even insists that if we don't have this phenomenon of being pulled up short, our reading is basically just solipsistic.

事实上，葛达玛甚至坚持,如果我们没有这种“突然停下“的经历，我们的阅读基本上仅仅是以自我为中心的。

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Suddenly, the distinctions that the simile works so hard to establish are beginning to erode.

突然，这种比喻竭力想要表现的区别,开始崩塌。

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For example, I don't have more space to write, if this is time and this is earnings-- if your earnings were,say, flat and suddenly increased like that, they wouldn't believe this increase at first, so the board would decide to adjust only, say, half way up.

例如,没地方写了,横轴是时间,纵轴是收益,如果你的收益,一直平稳,突然间提高,他们刚开始不敢相信这种增长,董事们决定只小幅增加,如增到一半

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