Close reading, the idea that you could take a text and do things with it--that the interpretation of a text wasn't just a matter of saying, "Oh, yes, it's about this and isn't it beautiful?"

当你拿到一篇文章之后,你所能做的不只是说些像,“哦，这是关于这个的，它读起来，是不是很美啊“之类的话“

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And it perhaps allows the opportunity for more personal interpretation, "exactly what does this music mean," more personal interpretation, because we're not tied to a text; we're not linked in to a particular text that tells us what it's about.

这也使个人阐释拥有了机会，这段音乐到底是什么意思“,更多的个人解释，因为我们不受文字的控制，我们不受限于描述某一含义的文字。

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