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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Anybody whose read a basic finance text, as a matter of fact, I think anybody who thinks about investments in a common sense fashion knows that diversification is an important fundamental tenet of portfolio management.

事实上,任何一个读过金融基础教材的人,任何一个,以正常思维来考虑投资问题的人,都知道分散投资是投资管理的,一条重要的基本原则

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In other words, the effort of a reader in coming to terms with the meaning of a text is an effort to master the subject matter, what is there, what the text is really about.

也就是说读者为理解文本,做出的努力,就是来掌握事情本身，存在的努力，掌握文本究竟是关于什么的努力。

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