从这个角度看，任何一部小说都是一个复杂的由重复、重复中的重复、以链条的形式与其它重复形成链形联系重复组成的编织体。

From this point of view any novel is a complex tissue of repetitions and of repetitions within repetitions, or of repetitions linked in chain fashion to other repetitions.

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There are definitions based on form, circularity, symmetry, economy of form, lack of economy of form, and repetition.

有些定义是基于形式，循环，对称，形式的精简与否，重复。

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So in formalist terms, that's the way we have to understand what, if we weren't formalists, we would suppose, as I say, to be a mnemotechnical device for the purpose of communicating something about the weather in Spain. Right?

形式主义者会这样理解，但如果我们不是形式主义者，我们就会认为这个重复单纯是为了,记住西班牙的天气，对吗？

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I'm always telling my kids,"Don't like"-- no.It is indeed very regular--So it is indeed very regular so that's one thing, and by regular we mean these patterns keep repeating again and again.

我总是对我的孩子说，不要说貌似-,它非常规则，所以它非常规则，这是其一，然后我们希望这些形式不断重复。

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