It's a question rather of how we know the author to be there firstly, and secondly, whether or not we should appeal to the authority of an author.

首先我们如何知道作者在那儿，其次，我们是否应该诉诸作者的权威。

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The unalterable progression of ideas across pages in a book gave the work an impressive authority — "authority" and "author" deriving from a common root.

贯穿全书的一系列坚定不移的思想赋予著作令人敬畏的权威——“权威(authority)”和“作者(author)”源于相同的字根。

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We find the authority of the author instead somewhere within the textual experience.

我们找到了作者的权威，而非在原文中的某处内容。

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We no longer appeal, in other words, to the authority of the author as the source of the meaning that we find in the text.

换言之，我们也不会再诉求作者的权威,把它作为我们在原文中找到的原意。

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That is to say, if something causes literature, there must be some sort of authority behind it and therefore we find ourselves asking, "What is an author?"

即是说，如果文学有缘由的，它的背后一定存在作者,所以我们会问，“作者是谁？“

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We find the authority of the author instead somewhere within the textual experience.

我们找到了作者的权威,而非在原文中的某处内容。

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