So strong and far reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state may do.

这些权利如此强大，如此深远,以至引发一个问题，如果有的话，政府可以做什么。

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This is what I've done, if you hear about anything, I'm looking for a job..."

这是我做的东西，如果你听说了什么，那就是，我正在找工作……”

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So that it's not what the text means -which might be anything, according to Hirsch, if you just appeal to the text; it's what the author means to say.

所以不是文本的意思，而是作者想说的东西,赫施认为，文本的意思几乎可以是任何东西，如果你仅仅参考文本的话。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But if life would no longer have anything good to offer you, if what you then would have had would have been something negative instead of something positive, then at that point, dying wouldn't actually be a bad thing.

但是当生命再也不能向你提供美好，届时我们面对的是,消极的而非积极的东西，那时死亡可能不是一件坏事。

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You want to talk about it systematically, but how can you talk about anything systematically if you don't know what it is?

人们总希望系统化地谈一件事，但是你一点都不了解它,怎么能系统化地谈它呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选