“我不想离开这个地方，”蟋蟀回答说，“除非我告诉你一个大实话。”

"I refuse to leave this spot," answered the Cricket, "until I have told you a great truth."

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除非我们能为我们这个时代总结出经验教训，否则历史就成为了无关大意的一串串干瘪瘪的数字。

Unless we can draw out lessons for our own times, history becomes nothing but a series of dry data points with no broader relevance.

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然而，除非我有足够的证据去支持我的这个信念，否则我依然不能说自己洞悉它了。

Still, unless I have adequate support for my belief, I cannot be said to know it.

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It poses other kinds of difficulty, let's say; but in the case of fiction, in order to be engaged, in order to enter the hermeneutic circle properly, we need the element of surprise, as I say, as a way of distinguishing between fiction and nonfiction.

它的确带来了其它困难，我们可以这样说;,但是在读文学时，为了投入进去，为了合适地进入解释循环，我们需要“惊讶“这个元素，正如我所说，作为区分文学和非文学的一点。

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