For example,I would know that you are a kind-hearted and well-meaning person.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

But if in fact my reading practice can be shown not clearly to distinguish between meaning and significance, well, then that's what would happen.

但如果实际上我的阅读经历不足以让我清晰地,分清楚什么是意思什么是意义，那么，这就是接下来会发生的。

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In other words, only if we really are sure that the historicist act of reading is effective and works, if I know the meaning of a text. Well, fine.

换言之，要是我们确定,阅读这个历史主义行为是有效的，有用的，如果我知道文本的意思，那么，很好。

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And people,well-meaning people, would send him the Daily Californian and stuff like that and he'd find out about all the protests and the riots, and it was really demoralizing.

VOA: standard.2010.05.31

But dreams always had a latent content as well, meaning the hidden implication of the dream.

但梦还具有潜性梦境，潜性梦境是指梦所隐藏的含义。

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But there's another meaning given to shepherds as well.

但是还有另一个附加在牧羊人上的含义。

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And he says this about his own little research: "I shall not hesitate to put down for you with my interpretations whatsoever things I well learned at one time from the Presbyters," just meaning the old guys,elders,"and well remembered, confidently asserting truthfulness for them.

对于他自己的研究，他这样说：,“我会毫不犹豫地写下,我曾经从长老那里学到和记住的,一切东西，而且加上我的诠释“,长老指长者，前辈，“并自信地肯定他们的真实性。

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Well, that's the case only, I say in conclusion, if we can distinguish between meaning and significance.

那么，那只能是这种情况，我总结性地说，如果我们能够区分开什么是意思什么是意义的话。

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Hermeneutics is, well, more or less by nature and by definition, interested in meaning.

解释学从定义来看，注重事物的含义。

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Nevertheless, to secure the distinction in actual practice, to say, "Okay. This is the meaning and now this is how I'm going to make it significant" -well, it seems unlikely indeed that this is something anyone could ever accomplish.

然而，若在实际操作中,你试着去体现这个区别，你会说，好的，这是意思,现在我来将它变成意义“,可是，实际上似乎谁都,无法完成这个任务。

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You may say to yourself, "Well, isn't it always the case that meaning is important and that meaning is hard to construe?"

你可能这样说：,“难道意义不是一直都很重要的吗？,确定意义不是一直都很困难吗？“

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So I went back to the great creator raising his plastic arm and suggested that, well, maybe after all there might be some good way of complicating the meaning of Akenside by suggesting that the modern, anachronistic meaning of "plastic" would be relevant to the sense of the poem.

所以我回想了一下,当这位伟大的创造家抬起他的塑料手臂，说，也许总有办法,能让Akenside的意思更复杂,有一个很好的例子就是,“plastic“一词古今意思的差别“,和诗歌的意境有关。

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