There were no historical records of Homer, and no trustworthy biography of the man exists beyond a few self-referential hints embedded in the texts themselves.

除了作品中包含的一些自我参照的暗示之外，历史上没有关于荷马的记载，也没有该人的可靠传记。

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Deconstruction doesn't say texts have no meaning.

解构主义不是说文本没有意义。

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No one knows who copied these ancient texts or how they got there.

没有人知道是谁复制了这些古老的书籍，以及它们为何流落至此。

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She says it's no easy feat. "You have to kind of deliver so much of the story through your own written texts so it's difficult in that way because you have to get a character and a point across in 140 characters or less."

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In other words, we can't use genre either as a blanket term; one of the most influential people in persuading us that there's no such thing as literature, legal texts, theological texts, philosophical texts, or scientific texts.

话句话说，我们不能将体裁用做一个概括性称呼;,主张没有文学，法律文本,哲学文本，或是科学文本中，最具影响的人物之一。

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Widespread looting following the war last year had added to the isolation, leaving many departments with literally no texts.

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There were no nasty texts.

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Their last contact was in February 2010, when there was an exchange of texts but no further contact.

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