Seeing our own institutions through such media, we see ourselves as foreigners might see us were they to look at us without preconceptions.

通过这种“媒介物”去观察我们自己的制度，我们就将会像那些在观察我们时不带成见的外国人所能看到的那样去观察我们自己。

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I'm perfectly capable of understanding the past in and for itself without any contribution of my own, without, in short, any preconceptions."

我十分能够理解过去,而没有自己的贡献，简单点说就是没有任何的先入之见“

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It's practically impossible to begin a reading of Milton without the burden of innumerable prejudices and preconceptions.

想要不带大量的偏见或成见的解读米尔顿,几乎是不可能的。

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