The dream work simultaneously condenses and displaces that which it is somehow or another struggling to make manifest as its object of desire.

梦运作时，凝缩和移置同时进行,这样一来，梦试图展示愿望的过程,就显得有些纠结了。

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In other words, the judgment of beauty does not depend on the existence of the object for its satisfaction.

换句话说，审美不会依赖于,事物自己的存在形式。

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It really was just, even as a physical object, all bound up with the politics of its moment.

这样看来，她的想法在当时的确与时俱进。

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It only becomes a question of knowing the object, of knowing it in and for itself, in its own terms, and not at all necessarily of learning from it, of being spoken to by it.

它仅仅是了解这个对象，了解这个对象本身，不一定是从对象中学习。

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