President Obama is said to have stated that, while the past must be understood, he is not there to argue history - and that it is time to "move on" to confront today's challenges.

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It is not a world in which language can be understood as somehow or another a means of expressing thought.

在索绪尔眼中的世界，语言不能被理解为,表达思想的方式。

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Truth is something to be embodied in Yeats, embodied rather than known; embodied in the sense of lived, not merely understood but experienced.

真理是叶芝要表现的，表现而不是理解，通过存活,表现，不仅是理解而是体验。

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Art" here is not to be understood also as the antithesis of science, as when we speak of the arts and the sciences.

艺术“在这里不能被理解为,科学的对立面，而艺术和科学经常被我们对立而谈。

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I just like it or I just don't like it according to principles that can be understood as arising from the faculty of judgment and not from the faculty of the understanding, which is appetitive, and the faculty of reason, which is moral.

我只是根据原则来判断喜欢还是不喜欢,这也可以被理解为从判断力出发,而不是从本能的理解力，或是道德上的理性出发。

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As we'll learn from Jakobson next week, literature can be understood--or what he calls the study of literature, "poetics"--can be understood as a subfield of semiotics, but semiotics is not in itself a literary theory.

下周我们学雅各布森的时候也会看到，文学可以被理解为，诗学，即符号学的一个分支，但是符号学不是文学理论。

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