It's a pretty state of affairs, in his view, when the most rigorous thinking that's being done about literature is being done in popular journals.

他认为，关于文学的严肃的思考大多,被发表在流行杂志上很不妥当。

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First is the body mass index, you're going to see this a lot and you--some of you probably know about it already because it's out there in the popular literature.

首先是体重指数,我们会经常碰到这个概念,你们也许已经知道这个概念了,它经常在科普读物中出现

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