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He wanted to transcend what he considered to be the banality of solely recording things exactly and to express as well his awareness of the occult and the strange.

A desire to throw over reality a light that never was might give way abruptly to the desire on the part of what we might consider a novelist-scientist to record exactly and concretely the structure and texture of a flower.

就这两句，麻烦解释下！谢了！

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He wanted to transcend what he considered to be the banality of solely recording things exactly and to express as well his awareness of the occult and the strange. 标红的两段是并列的两个宾语，谓语是前面的want。
他想要：1.超越死板（死记硬背造成的死板） 2.表达见解（对于神秘世界和陌生领域的见解）

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A desire to throw over reality a light that never was might give way abruptly to the desire on the part of what we might consider a novelist-scientist to record exactly and concretely the structure and texture of a flower.
先找句子主干：A desire give way to the desire.

从句子主干中我们可以看出，这句话是在讲第一种欲望如何被第二种欲望所取代。

那么第一种欲望是什么呢？从to throw over reality a light可以看出，这种欲望是：对现实做出阐述。而从that never was might这个修饰语中可以看出，这种欲望并不强烈。

第二种欲望又是什么呢？从to record exactly and concretely the structure and texture of a flower可以看出，这种欲望是：精确而具体地记录花朵的结构和质地。而从on the part of what we might consider a novelist-scientist可以看出，这种欲望常常被人们认为是作家式的科学家才有的。

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宇宙婴儿 发表于 2012-7-13 10:18
A desire to throw over reality a light that never was might give way abruptly to the desire on the p ...

抱歉回复比较晚！我还为上线就会提醒有回复呢！就说这么久怎么都没人理我》.《
   真的十分感谢！解答很详细！谢谢！

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dvd627 发表于 2012-7-12 23:36
他想超越只是照实记录事物的陈腐并想表达出他对奇思妙想的洞悉。

翻译得很雅呐！