Duh!" of course, is our response, and yet at the same time we can't understand a degree of mystery in even so seemingly simple a pronouncement. A beginning, of course--well, it has to have a beginning.

我们肯定要说：“废话！这不是明摆着的么！“，但同时,我们并不能深刻理解这样一个看似浅显的观点,起因，当然啦，一个故事总要有个开头。

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It's a challenge, and Eikhenbaum's essay that you read for today is in part--to a degree that it can't really come out and talk about, or doesn't want to come out and talk about it a response to Trotsky's book.

而艾肯鲍姆在论文中,却并没有回应托洛斯基的书，艾肯鲍姆并不想回应,不愿站出来回答。

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