So this course is actually going to run counter to that historical tendency to make unity out of diversity.

所以这一课程,是与历史趋同的趋势相悖的。

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Geoffrey Hartman's theory had a similar tendency to align the poem with a kind of a religious orthodoxy.

哈特曼的理论有着相似的趋势,给这首诗附加上一种宗教上的正统思想。

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This is, of course, disputable. There is a kind of a vogue recurrently in the history of fiction for a kind of miraculous sense that this is just exactly the way things are.

这个，当然，是有讨论余地的，这是一个趋势,循环地在小说历史中出现，为了一种不可思议的理由,说事情就是这样的。

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But whether that's an aberration, or that it's a new trend is still too early to say right now whether we're a new growing trend or not.

但究竟这是意外现象，还是一股新趋势,要下定论现在还为时尚早,我们还无法确定这是不是新趋势。

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You need a hero to help you, and having that hero, encountering the other mind as helper, is what obviates the tendency, even in a nice guy like Tony, toward narcissism which is manifest in the "I," "I," "I" at the beginning of the story.

他能帮助你，有了他的帮助，就可以避免自我陶醉的趋势，即便是托尼这么好的人，也可能会有这一趋势,总是用，“我“，“我“，“我“来开头。

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