This is much truer,of course, in a place like Georgia, where the first elected president Gamsakhurdia was overthrown by a civil war, then the second Shevardnadze was overthrown from the street in the Rose Revolution and now Saakashvili, after losing his war with Russia, in fact, is now threatened by the street,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

I first started teaching this course in the late 1970s and 80s when literary theory was a thing absolutely of the moment.

我在20世纪七八十年代时开始教这门课,当时文学理论非常流行。

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That's a term that first entered the English language sometime in the mid-nineteenth century, but of course the concept goes earlier.

这个词在19世纪中期,第一次出现在英语中，当然概念产生得早些。

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During the same period when I was first teaching this course, a veritable six-foot shelf of diatribes against literary theory was being written in the public sphere.

我一开始教这门课的时候，文学理论遭到了,公开地谩骂。

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But unfortunately, this is incredibly underwhelming certainly in the first week of a course.

但不幸的是，它不能让我们,在第一周的课程里留下深刻的印象。

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Remember I talk those of you who were here the first time: this course is built like a spiral Everything is intra-connected, what I talked about in the first class is connected to what I'm going to talk about today, is going to be connected to lecture 19.

记得一开始我就跟你们说过：,这课程就像个螺旋,内部的一切都是相关的，第一节课讲到的内容,与今天要谈的课题有关，也和第19课有关。

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Now this isn't the first time in this course that I've paused over a moment at a crossroads where you can't possibly take both paths but where it is obviously very, very difficult to make up one's mind.

现在是这个课程中第一次,在一个分叉路口停下,我们不可能同时走两条路,但是这也显然是非常难以决定的一个地方。

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