More important, though, is the simple courtesy of responding to someone who was nice enough to invite you, even if it is to say that you regret that you will not be able to attend.

更重要的是，因为主人家如此慷慨，回复邀请同时也是出于礼貌——哪怕你不能出席。

youdao

Anyway, as I were saying, by analyzing these echoes, the bat can determine, say, if there is wall in a cave that it needs to avoid, and how far away it is.

总之，就像我刚才讲的，通过分析这些回声，蝙蝠可以确定，比如说，洞穴里是否有需要避开的墙壁，以及它的距离有多远。

youdao

If he is Indian as you say, whatever that means, and if he is back here to stay this time and if he tells me that himself, I'll let it go.

如果他像你说的那样是印第安人，不管那是什么意思，如果他这次回来是要住下来，如果他自己亲口告诉我，我就不追究了。

youdao

You might ask your brother, "Is it okay if I borrow your car? Or if someone asks you to do something, you might say,Okay,I will. Still,language experts do not agree about where the word came from.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

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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Then we realize once again that we can only know what it is if we come to understand--in this case, probably, it's best to say a cultural system, understood as a semiosis, within which it appears.

这样我们就又明白了,只有在一个特定的文化系统中,我们才能认识一个符号。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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