We are, in other words, attempting to grasp it in a sentence that might read something like, "What the author means to say is--" Right?

换言之，我们在尝试着在这样一句话中掌握它，作者想说的是--，是吧？

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I have read an entire page full of words and given it zero because it is not on topic.

我读到的是一整篇都是单词的文章,给了零分，因为跑题了。

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In other words, aren't I going to be hopelessly prejudiced about what I read if I've got some sort of preliminary conception of what it's all about?

话句话说，难道对于文本的话题有些初步概念,我就会怀有偏见吗？

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And these are words that are very meaningful when you read the text of a problem or of a process Any questions before we got to the zeroth law?

这些词汇会非常有意义,在我们进入第零定律前,有没有什么问题,我们差不多已经，讲完了？

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In other words, perhaps to your frustration, what you read today has nothing at all, in and of itself, to tell you about literature.

所以，听起来可能会让你们沮丧，你们今天读的，和文学根本没关系。

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