It's a very different kind of crafting, but yet it does replace reality in a similar way, or it makes demands on reality that push the real back.

是一种很不一样的工艺，却以同样的方式代替了现实，或者对现实提出要求。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's just a placeholder that says I don't yet know what I wanna put here but I wanna put something, let me get back to you in just a moment.

它只是一个占位符，告诉电脑,我想在这放一个东西，但是暂时还不知道放什么东西，我先打断一下。

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But you can't yet be in it yet, because when people write to us and ask how they get in the book, we sent back a postcard saying: drop dead.

但我们还不能为现在的人撰写传记，有时人们会给我们写信,问怎么样才能纳入传记中，我们就寄回明信片，上面写着，活人无资格。

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But yet when you look back from the nineteenth century, these factors do count in explaining how countries turn out to be the way they are.

不过当你从十九世纪开始回顾历史,这些因素的确能解释,国家是如何转变成现在这样的

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