Things are not "made up" in Frost, "not made up" in the sense of imagined, called up out of thin air, like fairies and elves.

弗罗斯特的诗歌里没有编造，没有想象，像仙女和精灵那样的凭空想象。

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Ultimately, we reach the conclusion that if we're to think of literature, we're to think of something that is made up: not something that is based on something but something that is made up.

最终，我们得到结论，如果我们要想到文学，我们就得想到虚构的一些事情,不是基于其它事情上的事情，而是虚构的一些事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The thing is still not dominated and we could still have done exactly the same analysis, and actually you can see I'm not very far off in the numbers I made up, but things are not perfectly symmetric.

这虽然不能成为劣势策略,但我们还是能得出一样的分析结果,实际上这和我编的数字相差也不是很远,凡事并不总是绝对对称的嘛

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Right now I want to go out with Peggy Sue, but if I knew these true--It's not that you think, oh your roommate has made it up, that these are lies; these are slander.

现在我想和Peggy，Sue约会，但如果我知道这些事实，不是你所想的那样，你室友瞎编的，都是些谎话;,它们是诽谤。

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And also, discuss the debate over whether such cases are true or not; whether they could be taken as a real phenomena or a made-up phenomena, which is--there is a matter of a lot of controversy.

同时也讨论一下,这种现象是否真实存在,我们应该将它看作是真实的心理现象,还是人们主观想象出来的,这个问题存在着许多的争论

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