Passage of immigration legislation remains in doubt because of strong opposition by mostly Republican lawmakers.

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It does so by insisting on a complex mode of ambiguity that governs the passage--not atmosphere.

这篇文章很朦胧，很复杂,算不上是一种气氛。

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In the first passage, the statement about language by criticism, that sign and meaning can never coincide, is what is precisely taken for granted in the kind of language we call "literary."

在第一段，关于语言的主张，用批判的方式，认为符号和意思永远不能相矛盾，正是这个主张,被人们认为是理所当然的，对于我们所说的文学语言来说“

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Now we'll play a passage of Mozart-- a symphony by Mozart here that he wrote at the ripe old age of nine years.

现在我们要放的这个片段来自莫扎特-,这首交响曲是莫扎特在九岁那年写的。

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In the same general passage he says, a man who is by nature without a polis is either more or less than a man.

他在同一章节中指出,一个生来远离城邦,闲云野鹤的人,也就不再是一个真正的人

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He tries to defend his point of view by arguing in a famous passage that his policy of abstinence actually carries important benefits to the city.

他在其著名答辩中的立场,试图证明,其疏离策略,其实能为为城邦带来显著好处。

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Last time I began with Alexander H. Stephens's famous Cornerstone Speech in 1861, the famous passage by the Vice-President of the Confederacy declaring slavery the cornerstone of the Confederate Movement.

上次我说到亚历山大·H·史蒂芬,1861年著名的奠基石演讲,就是那个邦联副总统做的讲话,声称奴隶制是邦联运动的奠基石

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A particularly puritanical editor of Plato from the twentieth century writes in a footnote to that passage, "this is almost the only passage in Plato " that one would wish to blot out," his sensibilities were offended by this notion.

有一位道德特别崇高的编辑,在二十世纪编到柏拉图这个段落时,写了一句脚注，“这应是柏拉图书中唯一一段,让人想要擦掉的话“,他的感性受到那一段话的冒犯。

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If you are reminded here by the passage of Tynjanov that I gave you where he makes the distinction between literary history as evolving and literary history as modified by outside circumstances, I think it would be a legitimate parallel.

如果你们可以会想起我以前让你们读的提尼亚诺夫,那篇区分作为演变和,由外界因素改造的文学史的文章，那么一切就合乎逻辑了。

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Now let's go on here to listen to some music of Rossini-- composer Gioachino Rossini-- coming after Mozart, and he likes chord progressions too, so we're going to listen to a passage of Rossini and see what he does by way of his chord selection.

我们继续，在莫扎特之后我们要听的音乐来自罗西尼-,作曲家焦阿基诺，罗西尼，他也很喜欢用和弦进行，我们来听一下罗西尼的片段，看看他是怎样选择和弦的。

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Does he not therefore as much accuse mankind by ?" his action as I do by my words?" You can see the mischievousness of Hobbes in that delightful passage. What about you, he says, and this is not in some kind of state of nature.

他在这些地方用行动攻击人类的程度,不正和我用文字攻击的程度相同吗,你们可以看出霍布斯在这一精彩段落里,的一丝顽皮，他说，你们怎么看呢，这和自然状态不同。

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All right. So Empson is fascinated by this passage, and then he gives you, in the next few paragraphs, the amazing variety of grounds for his fascination.

好的，Empson对这段十分着迷，接下来的几段，他写了他为此着迷的，各种原因。

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