while plainly we can understand it simply to mean preconception which is inescapable nevertheless can still be bad.

尽管我们知道它的意思是,不可避免的先入为主的看法,可能是不好的。

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And Balzac, to go back to Balzac, he put it the way Parisians view the provinces, and this is still the case.

而巴尔扎克,讲回巴尔扎克,他使巴黎人对乡下产生先入为主的印象,这种印象一直保持到现在

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that you can't get away from preliminary conceptions about things.

你永远无法摆脱对于事物的先入为主的概念。

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