To give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing.

在创作的时候，作者会给文章加上个限制，他最后会给出一个象征意义来结束写作。

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Nevertheless, as much as we like to engage sometimes in this kind of analysis about the sources that have gone into the composition of the text it's also always important to keep your eye on the final form of the text as we've received it.

然而，当我们大量的进行,对关于著书来源的分析时,很重要的一点是，我们要留意,我们拿到的最终版本。

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Their diversity has not been flattened or homogenized by the final editor of the text.

它们的多样性并没有被消弱或统一划齐,被章节最后的编辑者。

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