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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Now, a foreword is of course supposed to suggest how you should read the text that's coming. And so, if we take it on in that role, let's see what we see.

现在，一个序言当然是要建议大家,去读一下那本书，还有，如果我们借鉴这个作用，让我们看一下这个。

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The other big piece of available data we have is of course, the program text.

我们可以获得的另外一些数据就是,程序的文本，当你研究程序文本的时候。

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In passing, I just want to say that Homer, of course, is the basic text, the basic document for all Greek thinking in every area that you can imagine throughout the rest of Greek history.

顺便提一下,我只想说《荷马史诗》,毫无疑问,是古希腊一切文献资料的基石,贯穿了希腊的整个历史,无论是在你能想象到的任何领域

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Turns out they make stock data and the like available essentially via text files or via a simple API application programming interface which will be one of the themes of the course.

他们基本上是通过使用文本文件,或者通过一个简单的API应用,或者编程接口来获取股票和其他一些数据,这些都是本课程的主要内容。

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Derrida famously, notoriously, said "there is nothing outside the text," right? What he meant by that, of course, is that there's nothing but text.

德里达著名地，恶名昭彰地，说道，文本之外什么都没有“,是吧，当然，他意思就是说，需要考虑的只有文本。

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We implicitly demand of expository texts," he goes on to say -and he may be alluding to Gadamer here because after all Gadamer is talking primarily about expository text, works of philosophy, works of social thought, which of course aren't trying to surprise or trick us.

我们暗中希望能得到解释的文本“，他接着说下去,而且他可能在这里提到葛达玛,因为毕竟葛达玛主要研究解释性作品，哲学作品，社会思想作品，这些当然不会试图去令我们惊讶或者是误导我们。

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