What we're talking about is literariness--that is to say, certain devices that we can identify that perform a certain function -and maybe out of the identification of these devices, to evolve a theory that's more widespread.

我们谈的是文学性，是一种我们能够认知并运用来达到一定目的的策略,我们需要进一步发展这个策略，使这个理论进化并传播。

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The question, of course, is what scholars have disagreed about and continue to disagree about, because the evidence simply will not permit any confident answer, but I ought to just mention a few of the theories that have been tossed around, a few among many, many, many.

而这个问题,是学者曾经争论不休,而且至今也尚无定论的,因为以目前的证据,不能得到任何确切的答案,但我需要,就一小部分广为传播的理论做些说明,这些只是各种理论中的一小部分

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