"Certainly we want to locate him and we want to negotiate with him, negotiate just regarding the resignation not about other things."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

We know it's an illusion, but we get to live in it so comfortably with so little alteration of the nature of the illusion or of the way in which we negotiate the illusory world, that it becomes kind of womb-like and cozy.

我们知道那是幻觉，但是我们活在其中，如此舒适地,基本不去改变幻觉的本质,也不改变我们在这个幻境中生活的方式，它变得如子宫般安全舒适。

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All right. Now as you read Iser you'll see immediately that in tone, in his sense of what's important, and in his understanding of the way in which we negotiate the world of texts he much more closely resembles Gadamer than Hirsch.

你们在读伊瑟尔时，立马可以感觉到,在他的语气，对重点的把握中,以及他对我们读懂文章的方法上的理解,他更像葛达玛，而不是赫施。

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"But the fact of the matter is, we cannot negotiate with the laws of physics.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

I tried to negotiate a laugh track so that if the jokes don't work we can superimpose some laughter.

罐头笑声,《老友记》等喜剧类美剧中常用的笑声录音

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In other words, all of them are modes of communication with which we function, the intelligibility of which allows us to negotiate the world around us.

也就是说，它们都是我们应用的交流模式，帮助我们理解周围的世界。

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