We just take it for granted that what we're reading is completely within our own horizon and we don't make any effort at all to understand that which is fundamentally or at least in some ways different.

我们想当然地认为,我们读的东西都在自己的视域之中,并不必花费什么精力,去理解那些基本上不同或有些不同的东西。

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In other words, it makes us pause over what we're reading.

也就是说，它使我们在阅读的时候停下。

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the whole section of the essay in which he's talking about classicism and which he later calls "tradition" is meant to suggest that we really can't merge horizons effectively unless we have a very broad and extensive common ground with what we're reading.

他花了一整个部分来讨论古典主义,他后来称其为，“传统“，是想要暗示,我们不可能有效地合并视界,除非我们对于我们的所读,有着极广的认识。

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What we're doing now - my writing and your reading - is a direct continuation.

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