In some ways this wasn't a bad letter.

某种程度上这并非一封糟糕的来信。

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I can infer from your letter that you have read my previous columns and know that my motto has been that "there are no bad patterns, only bad applications of patterns."

从您的来信中我可以推断出，您曾阅读过我以前的专栏，并且知道我的格言“没有不好的模式，只有不好的模式应用”。

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And so he wrote a letter trying to explain how the treatise wasn't nearly as bad as people thought it was.

所以他写了这封信解释其理论，并不是像人们所想象得那样糟糕。

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