John Carter,I think I understand the meaning of the word "friend."

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He is exclusively concerned with fiction and how we read fiction, how we come to understand fiction, and how we determine the meaning of a work of fiction.

他只关注文学，以及我们怎样读文学，怎样来理解文学，怎样确定一部文学作品的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

You can tell lies in language you may not understand the meaning of the words you used.

你可以用语言来说谎,也许你甚至不懂,你所用的词的含义。

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That is Hirsch's other key position, and we can understand it by saying something like this: the meaning of a text is what the author intended it to mean -that is to say, what we can establish with a reliable paraphrase.

这就是赫施的另一个重要观点，我们可以这样理解它：,文章的意思是作者想要表达的,即我们通过适当的释意能够想到的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So always amazing to us how we go into the problem, our eye or mind can see one class of solutions, but the math will tell you sometimes there are new solutions and you've got to respect it and understand and interpret the unwanted solutions, and this is a simple example where you can follow what the meaning of the second solution is.

解决问题的方式总能让人惊喜不已,我们的眼睛或思想可以看见一类解,但数学有时会告诉你还有新的解,你不能忽视它,而是解释这些不期而至的解,这只是一个简单的例子,由此你可以理解第二个解的意义

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You prove to your teacher that you understand the authors by being able to put their meaning in other words -in other words, to say the author is intending to say something, not just that the text says something and this is what it says, with your exam then being one long screed of quotation.

你们用自己的话写出文章的含义,以此向老师证明你们理解作者的意图,换句话说，要告诉老师作者想表达什么，而不仅仅是文本说的什么内容，然后在试卷上来一大段,冗长的引用。

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