这个想法在他早期的小说中已初见端倪。

The idea already existed in embryo in his earlier novels.

《牛津词典》

这个演出的想法是在他医院病房里产生的。

The idea for the show was born in his hospital room.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

这些想法今天看来也许是平淡乏味的，但在他那个时代却是很有煽动性的。

These ideas may seem tame today, but they were inflammatory in his time.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

This is one of the events, I think, that Yeats is thinking about in "The Fisherman" when he speaks of "great Art beaten down."

这就是叶芝，我想，在《打鱼人》里想法之一“,当他说，伟大的艺术败了“

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And you remember Yeats in "The Second Coming," - there's a beast that's kind of-- He doesn't know what it is, and here he's saying something similar.

你们记得在二次圣临里“,有提到一只野兽-,他不知道那到底是什么，在此他表达相似的想法。

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In many ways he is advancing a philosophic postulate of great scope and power, although the full development of the thesis is only left deeply embedded.

从很多方面看来,他是在向一种宏观视野,与权力的哲学式假说迈进，虽然这个论点并未发展完全,只是深植在他的想法中。

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