So it is simultaneously in his very first sentence a Marxist and a Darwinian vocabulary that Eikhenbaum is invoking, and that's what partly accounts for the strenuousness of his rhetoric.

所以艾肯鲍姆文章的第一句话同时引用了,达尔文主义和马克思主义，这部分解释了为什么,他的文章读起来那么吃力。

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Why does it matter what family I'm from?" he asks Diomedes.

为什么来自的家族会那么重要？“，他问狄俄墨得斯。

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