We no longer appeal, in other words, to the authority of the author as the source of the meaning that we find in the text.

换言之，我们也不会再诉求作者的权威,把它作为我们在原文中找到的原意。

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Some people asked me, if they bought the earlier version of the text, you can find the translation to the earlier version of the text on these question numbers.

有人问我，如果他们买了这本书的早期版本，你们找到这本书早期版本的翻译,关于这些问题的数字。

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We use a text to find meaning in something that we don't have available to us.

我们通过文本才能了解一些,我们不得而知的东西的含义。

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Why don't we just find meaning in the text, which is available to us?

我们为什么不能在可利用的文本中，找到作者的真实含义？

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