We can think in terms of repetition, obviously, as the delay that sets in between an origin and an end.

我们可以想想看这里面的重复，很明显，重复性的情节将起因和结果隔开来。

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Metonymy is the delay or perpetual, as we gathered also from Derrida, differance of signification.

转喻具有那种延期和永恒的特质，这也是我们从法国人，德里达那本《书写与差异》的书中看出来的。

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Who among us would be content with the counsels of patience and delay?

我们当中有谁会愿意,看病时一等再等？

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So displacement is a kind of delay or detour of understanding, and condensation, on the other hand, is a kind of distillation of understanding.

所以“移置“是一种滞后的，迂回的理解，而另一方面，“凝缩“,则是理解的提炼过程。

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But it's not just that the middles of fiction involve these processes of delay.

但并不只是小说的中间部分,会涉及延迟这一过程这么简单。

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So, it's not really a developmental ... it's not really a developmental delay in the way that it might make sense to think about certain forms of retardation.

孤独症并非发展延迟,不应当把它理解为,某种形式的发育迟缓

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