Try to paraphrase the question before you answer it.

先试解释一下问题再作回答。

《牛津词典》

To paraphrase President Bush, we must restore confidence in our economic sector.

布什总统的意思是，我们必须在我们的经济领域恢复自信。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

To paraphrase the great social scientist Joseph Schumpeter: there is no radical innovation without creative destruction.

伟大的社会科学家约瑟夫·熊彼特曾说过一句话，大意是：没有创造性的破坏，就没有彻底的创新。

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What it means is that in understanding a text, we are attempting to grasp it in paraphrase.

它是说，在理解文章时，我们在试着给它释义，并掌握它。

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That is Hirsch's other key position, and we can understand it by saying something like this: the meaning of a text is what the author intended it to mean -that is to say, what we can establish with a reliable paraphrase.

这就是赫施的另一个重要观点，我们可以这样理解它：,文章的意思是作者想要表达的,即我们通过适当的释意能够想到的。

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Now one other thing that Hirsch says, the other thing that I quoted, is in effect ] -I'll paraphrase now-- that what Gadamer omits to realize is that there is a difference between the meaning of a text and the significance of a text.

赫施说的另外一点，即我引用的另一点，现在起作用了,我现在开始来释意-,葛达玛没有发现的是,文章的含义和文章的意义之间的差别。

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One is that you have to paraphrase every single word, translate it into ordinary English.

WSJ: Word Craft: Sir Antony Sher on Acting Shakespeare

And then, to paraphrase Norma Desmond, NASA was big, it was the goals that got small.

FORBES: Is the Demise of NASA a Failure of Science or a Failure of Marketing?

To paraphrase Adam Smith, the sole purpose of money is to facilitate the exchange of goods.

FORBES: Talk Of the Euro's Coming Demise Is Greatly Exaggerated