You want to think about how much attention and primacy we should give to an author's statements about what her work mean--as readers.

对于作者对自己作品的阐述和说明,我们怎么注意,怎么给予优先度也不为过。

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My favorite author is probably Philip Roth. He's a Jewish author, Jewish-American.

我最喜欢的作家是菲利普•罗思，他是一个犹太作家，美籍犹太人。

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We are, in other words, attempting to grasp it in a sentence that might read something like, "What the author means to say is--" Right?

换言之，我们在尝试着在这样一句话中掌握它，作者想说的是--，是吧？

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And the answer--the short answer--is, Socrates, the character Socrates in the play, represents Plato, the author of the play's, philosophical views.

答案是,苏格拉底,即剧中苏格拉底的角色诠释了,戏剧作者自己的哲学观

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So as a very "grave author" - and this is what Chudleigh is implying -- Milton can tell us something potentially true about the priority of the sexes.

因此作为一个“严肃的作家“,-这是恰德莱暗示的--弥尔顿能告诉我们,关于性别优先地位的一些真相。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I am pleased and honored to have as my guest Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter, a leading scholar of International Law and International Relations, author, commentator, educator.

我非常荣幸,今天能请到安妮-玛丽·斯劳特院长来做客，身为国际法律和国际关系领域泰斗，她同时还是作家，评论家和教育学家。

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The other author, Franco Modigliani--in the book, the second author--was my teacher at MIT.

这本书的另一位作者,弗兰克·莫迪利阿尼,是第二作者,他是我在麻省理工大学的老师

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So notice this author--who I think is a pseudepigrapher.

这个作者，我觉得他是冒名者。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

That is Hirsch's other key position, and we can understand it by saying something like this: the meaning of a text is what the author intended it to mean -that is to say, what we can establish with a reliable paraphrase.

这就是赫施的另一个重要观点，我们可以这样理解它：,文章的意思是作者想要表达的,即我们通过适当的释意能够想到的。

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You prove to your teacher that you understand the authors by being able to put their meaning in other words -in other words, to say the author is intending to say something, not just that the text says something and this is what it says, with your exam then being one long screed of quotation.

你们用自己的话写出文章的含义,以此向老师证明你们理解作者的意图,换句话说，要告诉老师作者想表达什么，而不仅仅是文本说的什么内容，然后在试卷上来一大段,冗长的引用。

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In other words, the author, the traditional idea of the author -so much under suspicion in the work of Foucault and Barthes in the late sixties--can be turned on its ear.

换言之，有一种传统的看法就是对作者置之不理,六十年代晚期在福柯和巴特的,作品中有那么多疑点。

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that this very authoritative-sounding person seems to be an author, right?

即这个听上去非常权威的人看起来是个作家，对吧？

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