What it means is that in understanding a text, we are attempting to grasp it in paraphrase.

它是说，在理解文章时，我们在试着给它释义，并掌握它。

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This outburst allows Milton to solve what may have seemed up to this point an insoluble conflict: the insoluble conflict between the two meanings of the word vocation that we've been exploring.

这种感情的迸发使得弥尔顿能够解决,一些难以解决的争端：,这种处在天命和才能两个释义之间的,进退两难的争端。

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That's one of its meanings and I think it's the meaning that's relevant here.

这是它的一种释义,我认为这个释义在这里是恰当的

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