Any device can be the dominant at a given moment in the development of literary history.

任何一种方法都可以,在文学发展史的特定时期占支配地位。

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If you look at the history of engines there are discrete advances when people were able to apply the theory more and more.

如果你去回顾一下引擎的发展史,就会发现在这进程中的取得的各种突破,都源于对理论更加充分的应用

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So much then for the history of hermeneutics.

关于诠释学的发展史就讲到这儿。

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One thing I'd like to stress is that the history of technology is sometimes a history of very glamorous, unobvious ideas like nuclear power.

我想强调的一件事是,技术发展史有时是一种,令人着迷的潜藏的智慧发展史,就像核动力一样。

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