It's often put in terms of the relationship between the part and the whole. I approach a text and of course the first thing I read is a phrase or a sentence.

经常可以理解为,局部和整体的关系，我看到文本后,首先读到的东西理所当然是一个短语或一个句子。

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All right. In addition to the use of the relationship between plot and story, we also find Brooks using terms that are now, having read Jakobson and de Man, very familiar to us: the terms "metaphor" and "metonymy."

好的，除了运用主题和故事之间的关系,布鲁克斯还会用到很多别的词，等我们读完雅各布森和德曼的作品后会觉得很熟悉：,比如，“比喻“，和，“转喻“

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