Now in addition to defining literature, literary theory also asks questions obviously not unrelated but which open up the field somewhat.

除了定义文学以外，文学理论还提出一些,显然不是不相关，却开辟了新领域的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But I'm also open to doing different kind of things like...

但是我也接受不同的东西，比如……

学习是生活的一部分 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But it also contains other positions, alternatives that open those over-sized cultural ambitions to critique, to imaginative alternatives of many kinds.

但是它其中也包含着其他一些姿态，一些将这种过量的文学抱负供以批判的选择，以及多种多样的想象出的选择。

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Paradise Lost as a whole clearly wants us to believe that God has foreknowledge and it also clearly wants us to believe that we have free will, but the similes seem just as often to open up and to question the poem's doctrinal conclusions.

整体来说很清楚地是想让我们相信,上帝具有先知的能力,并且还想让我们相信人生来有自由的意志，但是这些比喻看起来只是为我们揭露,并质疑了诗歌本身的学理上的总结。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

However, there's one other variable that you want to be aware of and that is, he knows he ought to be going straight ahead like that, but he also knows that his right flank is open.

然而,还有其他变数是必须考虑到的,那就是,士兵知道他是向前直行的,但是,他同样知道他的右路是洞开的

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When you do Sitting Meditations and Buddhism, this medical school teach, you have your eyes open a reminder, that first of all, you don't fall asleep but also to remind you that you are supposed to be engaging the world as you do it, rather than having your eyes closed and isolating yourself.

当你学习佛教，进行坐禅时，据医学院的方法，你要睁开双眼,提醒自己，首先不要睡着,也是为了提醒自己,冥想时也要参与到这个世界中来，而不是闭上双眼,与外界隔绝。

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