Possibly, the most fascinating question is what is literature?

也许最有趣的一个问题是，文学是什么？

That means "What is literature?"

和“文学是怎样呈现的?。

What is literature and what is the unique value of literature?

文学是什么？文学的独特价值何在？

Much of what we'll be reading takes up the question "What is literature?"

我们将阅读的文章很大程度上是关于“文学是什么？

"What is literature" is the core of literary theory, spreading and penetrating.

“文学是什么”构成文学理论的核心，极具弥散性和渗透力。

What is literature is the first and basic question of all the literary theory faced, also other questions derive from it.

文学是什么？这是一切文学理论所面临的第一个也是最根本的问题，其它所有的问题都是由此衍生出来的。

However, it is until now that people have never achieved a unanimous agreement about what is literature autonomy and at what level to confirm it.

然而，对于究竟什么是文学的自主性以及在什么层面上确立文学自主性的理论依据，人们的理解并不一致。

What other people call content is a device like any other, and it engages in the struggle for dominance with all the other devices that one can identify as aspects of literature.

别人所说的内容只是另一种方法而已，它为了争夺支配地位历经斗争，胜利的那些才能被称为文学性。

We can say there's a great deal to learn about what people think literature is and we can develop very interesting kinds of thinking about the variety of ways in which these ideas are expressed.

可以说，关于人们对文学的定义,我们还有很多需要学习,我们也能从它们的各种不同的表达方法中,产生有趣的想法。

Basically scholars just start off saying, if there is a historical Paul then what are the letters that look enough alike to form one body of literature, and those are those seven letters.

学者的起点是，如果历史上确有一个保罗，那么有哪些信，足够相似，可以组成一部文献，那就是那七封信了。

What follows, it seems to me, is one of the most staggeringly beautiful, wonderful, amazing riffs on a passage of literature that you can encounter.

接下来这段节选，我认为，是你们能读到的文学作品里，最美妙，最惊艳的段子。

Well there's lots of very good polemical literature, but what makes it live is not the argument that it makes but the way it makes it.

有很多不错的论战文学，但是给作品生命的并非其中的雄辩，而是作品的论战方式。

Now ask yourself: what is the best piece of literature ever written about jaguars?

现在问问你自己：写过有关jaguars的最好的文学作品是什么？

That is to say, if something causes literature, there must be some sort of authority behind it and therefore we find ourselves asking, "What is an author?"

即是说，如果文学有缘由的，它的背后一定存在作者，所以我们会问，“作者是谁？”

By the same token, if literature has effects, it must have effects on someone, and this gives rise to the equally interesting and vexing question, "What is a reader?"

同样，如果文学史有影响的，它一定会对某些人产生影响，它也会引出一个同样有趣，而恼人的问题，“读者是谁？”

You know the mainly ruling about the Supreme Court about obscenity in movies or literature or anything has one of the criteria what is acceptable to a community.

你知道最高法院最重要的，关于电影或文学或其它东西中淫秽的管理，有一个被整个，社会接受的标准。

What has been missing from the agile literature is a solid, practical book on the specifics of developing large projects in an agile way.

关于敏捷开发的文字有许多，缺少的是一本在用敏捷方式开发大型软件项目细节方面的坚实且实用的书。

Essentially, what the precautionary-saving literature says is that more uncertainty reduces the average propensity to consume (APC), the ratio of consumption to income.

从本质上讲，预防性储蓄理论说的是，更多的不确定性会降低平均消费倾向(APC)，即比消费与收入的比率。

Daniel is one of the earliest cases of what we call apocalyptic literature.

但以理书是启示文学，最早的作品之一。

Introduction to New Testament History and Literature: Lecture 2 Professor Dale Martin: what is scripture, and what is Canon?

新约历史与文学导论，第二课2，戴尔·马丁教授：，何为圣典，何为正典？

The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good.

时间惟一的作用是淘汰不好的作品，因为只有真正的佳作才能经世长存。

What salt is to food, that wit and humour are to conversation and literature.

妙语与幽默之于会话与文学，恰似盐对于食物一样。

What salt is to the food, wit and humour are to conversation and literature.

隽语与幽默之于会话与文学，恰象盐之于食物一样。

What is interesting about the literature on groups to you?

对你来说，这一组有关群体的文献有趣之处为何？