but just the mythology of saying you are something and being that something are entirely different."

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He was continually imagining himself to be someone on the verge of saying something spectacular, but he wasn't quite there yet.

他一直想象自己,成为那种能说出一些惊世骇俗的话的人，但是他还没有到那一步。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And you remember Yeats in "The Second Coming," - there's a beast that's kind of-- He doesn't know what it is, and here he's saying something similar.

你们记得在二次圣临里“,有提到一只野兽-,他不知道那到底是什么，在此他表达相似的想法。

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Now we have uncovered something about the form, the structure, of Tony the Tow Truck in saying this, but we haven't discovered or uncovered a thing about the meaning of Tony the Tow Truck.

我们现在已经讨论了一些关于，托尼的拖车,的形式和结构，但是还没有讲到,它的含义理解。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So if somebody comes along and says No,no,everybody dies alone, and dying as part of a joint undertaking is impossible, they're just saying something false.

如果有人说，不，大家都是孤独而死的，死亡作为共同行动是不可能的，他们就错了。

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But thankfully I also found in my trolling around this morning,something that is perhaps technically motivating and at least remains for those of you which is many of you who actually use Gmail, you might have seen a little advert in the top right hand corner recently saying new beta version of a little something called Gmail Priority Inbox.

幸运的是我今天早上在网上闲逛的时候,发现了一些东西,一些对还在使用Gmail的人来说,可能在技术上有吸引力的东西，你可能已经看到,其右上方有个广告说的是,新版本Gmail优先收件箱发布了。

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Is it saying something deep and interesting about the nature of death?

这说明了死亡本质里某些有趣的东西吗？

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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

Whereas most utterances purport to be saying something true about the actual state of things in the world, literary utterance is under no such obligation, the argument goes, and ought properly to be understood as fiction making it up as opposed to referring.

大多数言辞都是对事物的真实状况的,真实反映，而这种观点认为，文学没有这个义务，应该把文学理解为小说,它是虚构而不是实指。

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I am not just saying "plastic" means "polymer," right, but nevertheless there's something of me in the interpretation.

我不只是说“plastic“的意思是“塑料“,但无论如何在解读中总是有“我“的成分。

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