To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

  • -- Mason Cooley 梅森·库利

要理解一种文学风格,就要考虑它遗漏了什么。

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If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.

如果从前面评论的文学基调中有人设想,我们对为群众利益而进行的激进运动漠不关心,这是十九世纪至高无上的光荣,那么他们很快就会发现他们犯了一个惊人的错误。

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

我可以再一次提醒你们,在这个时代,一个女人做着重要的文学思考。

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden.

凡是审查员能理解的讽刺作品,一律禁止。

We understand what we want to understand.

我们理解我们想要理解的。