He said many people are feeling doubt, even despair,about the future.

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They were wandering in the forests and he was in despair, having lost everything.

他们在森林里流浪,那勒陷入绝望,他失去了一切

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Mind you, he ascribes to authorial intention the most amazingly outrageous things that other critics threw up their hands in despair about, but nevertheless it is for him always still an appeal to authorial intention.

他认为写作意图,十分重要,但是被其他批评家忽视了，但是写作意图,十分吸引他。

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I am at the point of believing," he says, "that my labor will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato," he says in a moment of sort of uncharacteristic despair, "will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato."

我就快相信，自己所做的这一切都将是无用功,就像柏拉图所建立的理想国一样,他曾异常绝望地这样说，就像柏拉图的理想国一样毫无意义“

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