It must struggle against events which would help to achieve its goal too rapidly--by a kind of short-circuit.

它会在危险中挣扎,因为危险会太早把它带到终点。

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But even as black Baptist, I could have gone certain black Baptist and run out, because I must struggle against homophobia, and my profound love for gay brothers and lesbian sisters.

作为一个黑人浸信教徒，即使我去黑人浸信会，也会被赶走，因为我必须于恐同症作斗争，以及我对同性恋者们深深的爱。

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The city of Amsterdam grows up not only as part of this victorious struggle against the Spanish armies.

阿姆斯特丹的成长不仅仅是,反抗西班牙军队胜利的一部分

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Now obviously, the struggle takes place against the backdrop of completely undisciplined and unsystematic thinking which Eikhenbaum identifies as the typical thinking of the universities, of the academy.

很明显，这话时针对当时,艾肯鲍姆认为,无序混乱的,学术界而说的。

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Against the backdrop of Marx's thought pervading - not just Russian life but beginning to pervade Russian government-- against this backdrop, the idea of struggle, as in class struggle, is going to predominate.

马克思的思想不但席卷,俄国普通百姓的生活，并且开始影响俄国政府-,在这样的背景下，人们认为阶级斗争是历史发展的主要推动力。

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