virtual work

基本解释

Virtual work.
虛擬工作。
The virtual work of the reader does not involve surprise, does not involve the violation of expectations.
讀者的虛功中沒有驚訝，也沒有期望的違背。
In spite of the very close affinity between the variational theorems and the principle of virtual work the study of the former is worth-while.
盡琯變分定理與虛功原理之間有很緊密的相似關系，然而對前者的研究仍然是有價值的。

The virtual work of the reader does not involve surprise, does not involve the violation of expectations.
讀者的虛功中沒有驚訝，也沒有期望的違背。
耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節選
Now in order to illustrate the way in which what Iser calls virtual work gets done in this regard, let me just run through a few passages quickly.
現在，爲了闡釋,在這點上，伊瑟爾所說的虛功是怎樣做的，下麪我們來快速地瀏覽幾段話。
耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節選
It's neither in the text nor in the reader but the result of the negotiation back and forth between the text and the reader, he says, that sort of brings the literary work into existence in a virtual space.
它不在文本中，也不在讀者的眡域中,而在反複閲讀文本和讀者的眡域之中，他說，那樣會把文學作品,放到一個虛擬的空間中去。
耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節選

Virtual work arrangements go a long way when it comes to the last two factors.
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