That's really what the writer intends to say, and that's what we should see, and that's what we should strive to understand."

这是作者想要表达的，而且是我们得去，努力理解的东西，“

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And I know a lot of people these days strive to be around very interconnected community,

我知道现在很多人在联系很紧密的地区奋斗着，

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Is it a political one? What should the novel strive to do?

小说发展的方向在哪里？

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They didn't strive to reconcile the conflicts, nor should we.

他们没有去调和那些冲突，我们也不应该。

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What I strive for is say something new and different, not to reiterate people, in the sense of giving them a kind of textbook, clarification or introduction.

我所追求的,是一些新的，不同寻常的东西，而不是去重复别人的话,给他们一本教材，一种阐述或是介绍。

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