但他补充说，该领域的整体研究“仍处于起步阶段”，一个关键问题是，文学小说是否真的比其他小说更好。

But he added that the overall research in this area is "still in its infancy" and one key question is whether literary fiction really is better than other fiction.

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一组研究人员开始调查，收集皮肤样本，记录任何可以帮助他们回答关键问题的东西：为什么？

A team of researchers begins to investigate, collecting skin samples for instance, recording anything that could help them answer the crucial question: why?

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不过这项最新的研究，可能会为我们在未来几年回答这个关键问题奠定基础。

But the new study may help lay a foundation for answering that critical question in the years ahead.

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You know of course that this is absolutely crucial to the study of the law to this day: what are the grounds for understanding the meaning of the Constitution, for example?

你们当然知道,今天这些问题对于法学研究很关键：,比如，理解宪法的,根据是什么？

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