作者以儿时使用午餐盒而感到自豪。

The author was proud of using a lunch box in her childhood.

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作者以爵士乐为例介绍美国的音乐传统。

The author uses jazz an example to introduce American musical traditions.

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作者以某家门阶旁的新生儿为例想要说明什么？

What does the author try to illustrate with the example of the newborn on one's doorstep?

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We can't possibly know what the author meant except on the basis of our determination of the meaning of the text, so why not just focus our attention to meaning on the text?

我们无法知道作者是什么意思,除非以我们对文本意思的分析为基础，因此，为什么不仅仅将我们的注意力,集中在文本的意思上呢？

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So we can tell that the writer of the Ephesians seems to have been a different author.

所以我们可以判定以弗所书的写信人,似乎是另一位作者。

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that after Lolita.) But what I mean is that the reader must know when and where to contribute his imagination, and this he does by trying to get clear the specific world the author places at his disposal.

有些人可能就会那样想）,但我的意思是,读者必须知道何时何地需要发挥想像力,这样以看清作者所设置的特定的世界,在这篇小品文中。

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