It's a process of undoing and undermining that really eats away at the argument, we could argue, throughout the entirety of Areopagitica.

这是个论点开始慢慢被侵蚀破坏的过程,我们可以争论这点，贯穿整个《论出版自由》中。

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And we had a very complex publishing history to think about with that text.

我们在出版那本书的时候经历了,一个复杂的过程。

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Well, apparently Richard in real life did not refuse to make those changes. And imagine, in a book that then undergoes this publishing history that I have described, this is kind of a symbolic scene.

很明显，现实生活中的理查,并没有拒绝那些修改,想像一下，经历上述出版过程的一本书，这是象征性的场景。

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