As an educator,however, Johnson says that there is no other widespread cultural innovation to explain the radical shift in language usage she's seen over the past few years.

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Its composition is influenced and determined by literary conventions and goals. Now, of course we all know that there is no such thing as purely objective history anyway. We have no direct access to past events.

它的形成是受文学的惯例和目的影响和决定的,当然现在我们都知道了没有什么是纯客观的历史,我们没有直接通向过去事件的途径。

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And notice by the by, that when we make choices about our future, from the hedonist point of view, at least, there's no particular need to dwell a whole lot on the past, because what's done is done.

需要注意的是，当我们,为未来作选择时，起码享乐主义者认为，不必过分着眼于过去，因为过去的已经过去。

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