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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In a certain poet, the image, the image patterns, can certainly be recognized as the dominant device.

对于特定的一个诗人，图像，或图像的组合，当然可以是占支配地位的方法。

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But, that's all changed, but the reality of the situation, that Paris is overly dominant, has not changed at all.

但是今非昔比,实际的情况是,巴黎的绝对支配地位丝毫没有变化过

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In other words, an enormous variety of aspects of literature, understood as "literariness," can become the dominant.

也就是说，文学的很多方面，也就是我们所说的文学性，都可以占支配地位。

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In other words, once you start thinking about the evanescence of dominance, you're also thinking about literary history.

也就是说，每一种文学支配地位的消失，形成了文学史。

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What other people call content is a device like any other, and it engages in the struggle for dominance with all the other devices that one can identify as aspects of literature."

别人所说的内容只是另一种方法而已，它为了争夺支配地位历经斗争,胜利的那些才能被称为文学性“

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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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And, one of the reasons why the role of the dominance of Paris is so great is precisely because of the centralization of the French state.

巴黎能够取得支配地位的一个原因,恰恰就是法国政府的中央集权化

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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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