Whatever danger a particular text may pose to the state is outweighed by the greater harm of the official elimination of that text or by the greater harm of the punishment of the author.

这个文章对政府产生的威胁远远比不上,官方对这篇文章的打压的危害,和作者的批判的危害。

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And it perhaps allows the opportunity for more personal interpretation, "exactly what does this music mean," more personal interpretation, because we're not tied to a text; we're not linked in to a particular text that tells us what it's about.

这也使个人阐释拥有了机会，这段音乐到底是什么意思“,更多的个人解释，因为我们不受文字的控制，我们不受限于描述某一含义的文字。

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This then leads to a very different discussion because A play is not a piece of text. A play is a living thing That is meant to be performed by actors in a particular setting. Different actors with different directors interpret the words of Shakespeare to the best. We can construct those words differently.

这引起一场很不同的讨论,因为一部戏剧不是一篇文章，而是活物,是要被演员在特定的场景下,表演出来的，不同的演员,和导演尽可能去诠释莎士比亚的文字,我们可以以不同方式建构这些文字。

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