He says the Obama administration's "It's a presumption that these are obstacles to cooperation, which in fact I think China has enough of their own interests and equities in for example the economic situation to cooperate irrespective of what we do on some of these other issues,".

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Any right-thinking printer or any right-thinking publisher would scoff at the presumption of a poet who demanded such a thing.

任何一个思想健全的印刷商和出版商,都会嘲笑你去假定诗人需要这样的东西。

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This is a presumption of all the poets we'll be reading.

这对我们要读到的诗人有种冒犯的意味。

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The presumption is that they all reward and demand a certain amount of close reading.

我认为这些诗人及其作品是值得,我们去细细品味并进行深入的阅读研究。

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