We don't have an enormous difficulty grasping them, and it doesn't seem to me that our capability of grasping irony is founded on a necessary, underlying agreement.

我们在理解时不会用很大困难，而且我认为，我们理解讽刺的能力,是建立在必要的，潜在的共识之上的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Now that ignorance that I'm describing, what Wordsworth called "wise passiveness", ; what Keats described as "negative capability"; the great argument for it is very simple.

我所谈到的这种无知，华兹华斯笔下的，被动的聪悟，济慈描述的，自我否定力;,这背后的道理一点也不复杂。

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The important concept is that, while every cell in your body has the capability of making all the proteins that are needed throughout your body, not every cell is doing that at any given time.

这里面有一个重要的概念,就是尽管你身体里的细胞都,有能力制造出,全身上下所需的所有蛋白质,但不是所有细胞每时每刻都在这么做

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