What's the dominant in the text is just the stuff, the stuff in his knapsack listed with as little implication as possible.

主题占支配地位，重要的是那些在背包里几乎没有任何含义的东西。

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It becomes, at certain moments in the evolution of forms according to the Russian formalists, the dominant.

根据俄国形式主义者们的说法,它只是在进化中变成了支配而已。

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So this tells you that it's electron structure that governs.

这告诉你们,都是电子结构在支配。

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Now,that has changed, for sure; but,the centralization of the French government and the domination of Paris over the life of the nation is very difficult to change, over a long period of time.

现在,情况已经发生了改变,但是法国政府的中央集权化,以及巴黎在国民生活中的支配地位,在相当时间段内,都很难得以改变

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In every regime one of these groups he says will be the dominant class will be the dominant body the ruling body as he says in that definition and that ruling body will in turn he says define the nature of the regime.

他说，在每一个政体之中,这些类组中的一类将会是统治阶级,支配本体，统治本体,如他所说，在那样的定义之下,统治本体将会相对地定义政体的本质。

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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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we "put both feet squarely on the ground" of the Eiffel Tower, we're liberated from the idea that somehow or another it's a governing presence.

如果，我们将，“双脚平放于地面“，站在埃菲尔铁塔上，我们就摆脱了,它是一种支配性的存在的观点。

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The subject matter itself becomes the dominant device, and it implies in your imagination a way to construct it, but the way to construct it is not the dominant.

但是在奥布莱恩的文章里，主题被首先给出，主题占支配地位，在想象中引导你构建情节。

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