Does he want to say that he's just an author function, that his textual field is a kind of set of structural operations within which one can discover an author?

他是不是想说他只是个功能性的作者，而他所写的文章只是一套,用于发现作者的结构上的应用程序？

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We can also do a similar thing, and I'll keep my distance from the board, but we can instead be holding x constant, for example, putting x to be equal to zero, and then all we're doing is considering the electric field as a function of t.

我们也可以做类似的事情,把x固定为一个常数,例如令x等于零，然后,考虑电场作为时间的函数,这种情况下，我们划掉。

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