Actually, let me start by saying I'm going to distinguish two broad families of characteristics we might appeal to.

我首先来,区分一下两个不同种类的特征,我们也许会用到它们

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He's connected to both those strains as well as the modernist strain.

怀特同时具备两种特征,但我先不去区分。

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