英语语法分析

He read a passage from Emerson.

他读了一段爱默生的作品。

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Emerson would always set down new ideas that occurred to him.

爱默生总是把他突然想到的新想法写下来。

Being learned in some branch of human knowledge is one thing; living in "public and illustrious thoughts," as Emerson would say, is something else.

在人类知识的某个分支中被研究是一回事；如爱默生所说，生活在“公众的和杰出的思想中”是另一回事。