然而，这种历史分期最基本的标准掩盖了大量的悖论。

Yet this most fundamental standard of historical periodization conceals a host of paradoxes.

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这个明显的悖论是我们对语言着迷的核心，它蕴含着许多秘密。

This apparent paradox is at the core of our fascination with language, and it holds many of its secrets.

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这个生态系统是生物圈中令人着迷的悖论之一：清澈而又缺乏营养的水域是如何支撑如此多产的群落的？

This ecosystem is one of the fascinating paradoxes of the biosphere: how do clear, and thus nutrient-poor, waters support such prolific and productive communities?

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There are also all kinds of paradoxes and subtle puns and ironies, and in section where you'll be doing a lot of your close reading work, those are some of the things that will be drawn to your attention.

里面有各种悖论，微妙的双关语，明讥暗讽，在课上我们将会做很多精细的阅读，而那些就是你们应该注意的地方。

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And so I'm going to leave you here at the end of this lecture less with a conclusion than with a paradox.

我准备就讲到这里，留给你们,一个文学上的悖论而非一个结论。

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But the Hobbesian point, the paradox being that the Hobbesian bourgeois cannot entirely dispense with the barbarian, even in its own midst.

这就是霍布斯的悖论,他的资产阶级不可能完全免于野蛮人的挑战,甚至这挑战就来自于资产阶级的内部。

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