He's interested in the way in which a reader can come to terms with a meaning conveyed by a text, and that much, as I say, despite the profoundly different nature of their projects, Wimsatt and Gadamer have in common.

他只关注读者如何明白,文章的意思，而这也就是，我所说的，文萨特和葛达玛的共同之处，即是他俩在某些领域有本质上的差别。

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And we talked about this before--that classical music, probably eighty-five percent of it, does not involve a text, and that's a whole different ballgame because then you have to communicate meaning in a completely different sort of way.

我们之前也说过，古典音乐，大约百分之八十五，都没有歌词，所以这就让这两者产生了本质的区别,听众必须用完全不同的方法理解音乐的内涵。

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