That is to say, maybe the most central and, for me, possibly the most fascinating question theory asks is well, what is literature?

对我而言，理论提出的最核心，也许是最有趣的一个问题是,文学是什么？

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Now that's precisely the question that Freud asked himself in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, a text which begins with a consideration of trauma victims.

这就是弗洛伊德,在他的《超越快乐原则》中提到的核心问题，整篇文章以对创伤患者的考虑开始。

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In a sense, the core of Hobbes' theory of sovereignty can be boiled down to the statement that the sovereign and only the sovereign is the source of law.

从一定意义上讲,霍布斯对国家权力的核心观点,可以概述为,君主，而且只有君主,是法律效力的唯一源泉。

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And there's a huge critical industry around Flannery O'Connor, and at the core of it is a body of criticism that finds and articulates and explains the religious meanings of her texts.

奥康纳的周围是个庞大的评论圈，其核心是对她文中的,宗教意义的,发现、表达和阐释。

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So this is the central idea of calculus, right?

这是微积分的核心思想,对吗

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This is a simile that Stanley Fish brilliantly describes ; as central to a certain temporal procedure common in Milton's verse; Fish is interested in the temporal process of reading in general.

这被斯坦利费什独具匠心地形容为,弥尔顿诗中极为常见的时间步骤的核心;,费什对总体上这首诗的时间顺序非常感兴趣。

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