Edith, a reader of sublime simplicity, as de Man says, misinterprets the rhetorical question as a grammatical question: "What is the difference? I'm curious to know."

而依迪斯一个极端天真的读者，正如德曼所说，错误地将这个修辞问句理解成一个语法型问句：,“区别在哪里呢，我想知道“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

His examples are typically drawn from situations of human beings or polities in extremes where the very survival or independence of a society is at stake.

他的范例是,典型地取材自人类,或政体在极端下的处境,即当存活或一个社会的独立,已面临考验。

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The notion that this is about the Mycenaean world is an outlier, and then I would say the largest consensus is something like Finley's consensus, but people verging in both directions from that.

那些认为这是关于,迈锡尼时期的观点的人也是无知的,我想芬利的观点大概是最主流的,但是人们似乎理解地有些极端

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And you can very quickly take this feature to an extreme 10 and start putting X and Y and A and B and 10 and all your variables up top because it would seem to solve all of your problems and stop all of your thinking, but it's generally not a good thing.

你可能迅速地使这个特征成为一个极端,开始把X和Y和A和B和0,和所有的变量都放在最前，因为好像它可以,解决你的所有问题，并中止你的想法，但通常这不是一件好事情。

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Now, people--some people make an enormous jump from that and wrongly suggest that what the Greeks basically did was-- well, if you want to take the most extreme statement of it, stole their civilization from the other folks.

现在有些人,跳脱了这个定义,错误地认为,希腊人仅仅是,如果选取其中最极端的陈述,从他人那里窃取了文明

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