Soon after Call and Caroline were married, the Captain said to me, "This is hard for you,isn't it?What is it you really want to do?"

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You may say to yourself, "Well, isn't it always the case that meaning is important and that meaning is hard to construe?"

你可能这样说：,“难道意义不是一直都很重要的吗？,确定意义不是一直都很困难吗？“

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Well, it's a little bit hard to tell exactly, isn't it?

这个,有一点难以分辨,是不是

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It isn't the case that defending easy dominates defending hard.

防守平坦之途并非优于防守崎岖之途

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So that's a shot fired across the bow against the author because it's Barthes' supposition that the author isn't maybe even quite an author function because that function may be hard to identify in a discrete way among myriad other functions.

因而这是对作者的警告,因为巴特推测,作者可能甚至都不是功能性的,因为这种功能可能很难通过分离的方式,在很多其他功能中被辨认出来。

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If you think this class is going to be easy, I think it isn't actually an easy class. It's actually quite a hard class, but I think I can guarantee it's going to be a fun class.

你要是认为这门课挺简单,这不是轻松的课,事实上它有点难,我保证这门课一定很有趣

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