Barthes, while writing this--he's writing what has perhaps in retrospect seemed to be his most important book, it's called S/Z.

巴特在创作这篇文章的时候,根据他的回忆这应该是他最重要的一本书，名叫《S\Z》

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While Milton decided against writing an explicitly political nationalist poem, he did see himself as writing a poem that performed some kind of political function.

尽管弥尔顿决定要写的不是,有政治性的民族主义诗歌，他也让这首诗,发挥了一定政治作用。

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On the other hand, the critic Michael Wood has pointed out that Nabokov didn't lose Russian. He didn't lose it on the way while he was riding the boat; he decided to stop writing in it.

另一方面，批评家，迈克尔·伍德指出,纳博科夫没有完全失去俄语，当他划船的时候,他意识到这点，他决定停止写作。

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