Collecting raw material, which is reading books and taking notes, is very much like the process of brainstorming at the prewriting stage of an ordinary essay.

收集原始资料，即阅读书籍和做笔记，很像写一篇普通文章前的头脑风暴过程。

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Reading this essay was an elevating experience.

阅读这篇短文很有启发。

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I was reading an essay of Saleeby's the other day, and the best Saleeby could say was that Herbert Spencer NEARLY succeeded in answering Berkeley.

那天我读了撤里比的一篇论文，撒里比所能说出的最好的话不过是：赫伯特·斯宾塞几乎回答了贝克莱的问题。

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Nobody can possibly miss in reading Eikhenbaum's rhetorically rather bizarre essay his obsession with struggle, with the fight, and with doing battle.

读完艾肯鲍姆,那篇修辞古怪的文章后，没有人会注意不到他对斗争和挣扎的热衷。

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So I was reading Media, and I have to write an essay about it. So that's what I was doing.

我在读与媒介有关的内容，需要写一篇有关的论文。那是我之前在做的。

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One of the texts of de Man -also in the book called Allegories of Reading where you'll find also a version of the essay "Semiology and Rhetoric" one of the essays that those who had actually read de Man actually argued about in a persistent fashion is called "The Purloined Ribbon."

德曼的一篇文章,同样在《阅读的寓言》这本书中能找到,在这本书中还能找到“符号学与修辞“的一个版本“,这是一篇读过德曼的人都会,不停争论的文章，它叫“偷窃的缎带“

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Albert Wojnilower, senior adviser to Monitor Clipper Partners, which manages private-equity investments, predicts enormous increases in financial risks for everyone in his "Life Without Treasury Securities, " a 16-page essay that is must reading on Wall Street these days.

FORBES: Treasurys, The Endangered Species

American trompe l'oeil is one of the surprises of this exhibition (for this reason alone the catalogue essay by Mark Mitchell is well worth reading).

ECONOMIST: The art of deception

Also worth reading is Henry James's 1893 essay, "London, " because he, too, was both thrilled and appalled by the "dreadful, delightful" city.

WSJ: Novels Set in London | Dear Book Lover