Cervantes is preoccupied with a figure who is crazy we're pretty sure of that, but he certainly isn't.

塞万提斯专注于一个疯了的人物,这一点我们很确定，但是他并不这么认为。

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He was a Victorian historian preoccupied with the dissolution of Western civilization.

他是一个维多利亚时代的历史学家,专门研究西方文明的瓦解。

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Next time, we're turning to a very different kind of writing, a writing equally preoccupied with its relationship to the world, to life, but very differently approaching that problem.

下次，我们将关注一部完全不同的,作品，一部同样让人着迷的，与生活和世界以完全不同的,方式产生关联的作品。

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