So this sort of structural repetition creates a crescendo that leads then to the finaland most devastating plague which is the slaughter of the Egyptian firstborn sons.

所以这种结构上的反复，创造了一种渐渐加强的效果,最终到了最后一个，也是最具毁灭性的瘟疫,对埃及人长子的屠杀。

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Because when we try to suppress a natural phenomenon such as having a visual of the word when we say it, that thing just intensifies.

因为当我们企图压抑一种自然现象时,比如提起一个词时浮现出相应形象，只会加强它。

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An obvious reason how trains reinforce the predominance of Paris.

铁路线如何加强巴黎主导地位的,一个显著原因便是

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As I already suggested, and I would insist upon this again, that the consolidation of territorial rulers had already given the basis to an expanding, more formalized state structure, even in England.

我提到过 现在再强调一遍,国家的兼并,君权的加强为一个日益庞大,更有章法的现代国家的形成奠定了基础,在英格兰也是如此

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