He is imagining a literary form that is soaked in the stuff of social life.

他在构想着一种渗入生活的文学形式。

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The important thing about Saussure and the discipline of semiotics is the incredible influence that it has had on virtually every form of subsequent literary theory.

索绪尔和其他符号学家都很关注的一件事就是,符号学对于,任意一种文学理论的影响。

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It's difficult to imagine that as an expression of genuine grief over the death of a genuinely close friend would take the form of a poem so learned, so filled with remote literary allusions and obscure opinions.

这首诗是为表达对挚友逝去的真挚悲痛,却采取了这样一种如此博学，如此充满,遥远的幻境和隐晦的观点的形式,这确实是难以想象的。

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