He says if libel remains a criminal offense, then even a Freedom of Information law is futile.

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By the way, once again there's a bit of a rift there between Barthes and Foucault. Foucault wouldn't say "quite futile."

顺便说一句，这里巴特和福柯,又有了分歧，巴特不会说“没有希望“

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It tells you that any attempt to try to specify, to localize the position of an electron in such a system is futile.

这说明你试着任何尝试关于，使一个电子在这样一个系统中,确定其明确的位置是没有意义的。

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Barthes says, "Once the Author is removed, the claim to decipher a text becomes quite futile."

巴特说：“一旦作者被移位，那么解读原文就没有希望了“

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