A narrative theory is always talking with some satisfaction about how there's no such thing in fiction as irrelevant detail.

一个叙述性的理论通常都在讲述,小说中没有细节是完全和主题无关的这一满足感。

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That sounds funny, but in a sense, that is--we have to define the sense in which it's irrelevant.

听起来很有意思,但从某种意义上讲,我们必须说清楚不相关性的含义

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There are so many South's today that it has rendered this question in some ways almost irrelevant, but, in other ways, of course not.

现在南方有许多的东西,看似和这个问题无关,从某种角度而言甚至是毫不相关,但是,换个角度来说 当然不是这样的

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Now, if this all seems like arcane and irrelevant detail, let's just see why this matters in the picture, and then we'll leave soccer, at least for today.

如果你觉得这些听起来稀奇古怪,且它们与你毫不相干,那我们就来看看这个图像吧,以后我们不讨论足球了,至少今天是不会讨论了

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There is now no preference--well it could be-- there are lots of complexities in the tax law but, basically, dividend policy really is irrelevant now.

这就没有偏好差别了,税法中仍有很多复杂条款,但基本说来,是否推行股利政策与此无关

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They're long, they're not written in English; in most set of circumstances they are irrelevant.

他们很长，而且不是用英文写的;,在大部分情况下他们都是无关紧要的。

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