In other words, whereas the New Critics and Wolfgang Iser are interested in the roughening of form, they're interested in it for hermeneutic purposes.

新批评派成员和伊瑟尔,也对形式的粗糙化感兴趣，他们对它解释学的方面感兴趣。

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In other words, replacing the shortest distance between two points that we experience in a practical message, "literariness," as the formalists call it, or "poetic language," as they also sometimes call it and as the New Critics certainly call it, slows us down.

也就是说，实用语言以最短的距离,联系两点，而文学性，如形式主义者所称，或诗意的语言，他们有时也会这么叫,新批评派成员一定会这么称呼，使我们的理解速度慢了下来。

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The reason the mafia thrives in countries where it's hard to write legal contracts-- let's say some new parts of the former Soviet Union or some parts of Africa the reason the mafia thrives in those environments, is that it substitutes for the law and enforces both legal and illegal contracts.

黑恶势力在那些,书面协议不受保护国家不断壮大,比如前苏联新成员国 或者非洲,为什么黑恶势力在这些地方发展壮大,因为这是法律强制力的补充,它维系所有合同,不管是不是合法的

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The board likes him; the CEO eventually retires CEO and they make this guy the CEO -the fraternity president we're talking about --CEO-- Now he's now the head guy--the CEO--and he'll bring in a number two guy that's a little dumber than he is because he doesn't want to be threatened.

董事会成员很喜欢他原来那个CEO在退休了,董事会成员就任命他为公司新一任的,-我们刚才一直说的那个学生会会长,现在他是公司的首脑了,他会提升一名比他更愚笨一些的直接下属,因为他不想自己的职位受到威胁。

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