In the first passage, the statement about language by criticism, that sign and meaning can never coincide, is what is precisely taken for granted in the kind of language we call "literary."

在第一段，关于语言的主张，用批判的方式，认为符号和意思永远不能相矛盾，正是这个主张,被人们认为是理所当然的，对于我们所说的文学语言来说“

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By the time we get to Woolf in the early part of the twentieth century, Milton has come to be associated with essentially all of these ways of thinking about power, however contradictory they are.

到了20世纪早期伍尔夫的那个时代，人们开始将弥尔顿与所有思考力量,的方式相联系，不管这些方式是多么互相矛盾。

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If I asked you what magazines you read, it turns out people who are right wing read right wing magazines, people who are left wing read left wing magazines, because people don't as a rule enjoy getting information that disconfirms what they believe in.

如果我问你们，你们看什么杂志，我会发现右翼的会看右翼的杂志，左翼的会看左翼的杂志，因为一般来说，人不喜欢接收到,与他们信奉的相矛盾的信息。

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But these stories rival, and implicitly polemicize against, the myths or mythologies of Israel's neighbors.

这些故事相矛盾，且隐含着相反含意，与以色列的杜撰故事和神话传说。

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