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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but it's just like a time when they really took the care to look at how to construct things.

但它代表了一个时期，那时他们真正关注搞建筑的方法。

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And to the extent these portray an unrealistic or unfair or biased perception of the world we could construct stereotypes that are faithful to the data we're getting but the data is not representative.

因为媒体,没有真实，公平，不偏不倚地反映世界,我们的刻板印象,就会根据这些信息来形成,但这些信息并不能以一概全。

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Here, too, gets a little ugly and this is why I tend not to like this construct, at least in C, but sometimes it's necessary or it's the simplest way to achieve this goal.

这里也有点难看的，这也是为什么我,不太喜欢这个结构，至少在C语言中，但是有时它是必须的,或者它是达到目标最简单的方法。

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