Well, I actually think the Russian formalists can be defended against the charge that, unbeknownst to themselves, they fall back in to form-content distinctions by insisting on this variety of dualities.

但是我认为,这些形式主义者们在不自觉中，对于形式和内容的双重性,太过偏执。

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The purpose of new form is not to express new content, but to change an old form which has lost its aesthetic quality lost its power to take the film away from our eyes].

新形式的目的不是要表达新的内容，而是要更换已经失去美学价值的旧形式,不能调整我们看世界的旧眼光了。

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There's an obvious sense in which they understand poetic languageto be that in which form is predominant and practical language to be that in which content is predominant, but the Russian formalists see it in a slightly different way.

他们认为,诗歌中形式占主导,实用语言中内容占主导，但是俄国形式主义者们不这么认为。

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In all of these cases, you're tempted to say, "Well, gee. One of those must be form and the other must be content -in particular, obviously "plot" and "story" where "plot" is the constructedness of the text and the "story" is what the text is about.

在所有这些情况中，他们都企图解释，这些一个是形式,一个是内容,具体来说，很明显在情节和故事的关系上“,情节是构建方式,而故事是内容。

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