"It was a struggle," "I mean she just didn't have the financial means to care for us.

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So although the New Critics were fed up with philological criticism, I don't mean to be condescending toward it or to suggest that it didn't play a crucially important role in the evolution of literary studies.

所以，虽然新批判主义,对语言学批判主义不满，但是并不是要否认语言学批判主义,在文学研究发展过程中,起到的重要作用。

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And it's just, I didn't like the general atmosphere, people, like, being mean to each other, which I found.

我不喜欢他们平时的那种氛围，我发现他们人与人之间也很刻薄。

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Even if we didn't have unpredictability, I mean rather, even if we had unpredictability, it wouldn't necessarily follow that death was pervasive in this way.

即使我们没有不可预知性，我的意思其实是，即使我们有不可预知性，但死也未必会,按照这种方式遍布。

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Sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound so condescending.

对不起，我不是故意要让它听起来如此高深。

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Like, I mean... I don't know. I, like, really didn't study for it or anything,

我想说……其实，我根本就没怎么好好学习这门课，

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