来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第25集 第25集》
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since the founding of the archive--从档案馆建成起即如此 -
have spent a lot of time thinking about and theorizing.花费大量时间思考的东西 -
In the course of that theorizing,在理论化的过程中 -
the word "witness""见证"这一词 -
has come to have a very specific and powerful meaning.开始有了非常特殊有力的意义 -
The interviewer was to think of herself or himself as--采访者需要把他自己当做 -
not a questioner or as an interviewer并不是一个提问者或采访者 -
in the way that we would usually understand that role--像我们一般认为的那样 -
but rather as a witness to that person's story,而是把自己当做那人故事的见证人 -
a witness in the sense of a judicial witness,一个完全公正的见证人 -
someone who would be in a court to affirm一个会在法庭上确认一件事 -
that something had, indeed, happened.真的 发生了