Miller examined this difficult period in American history by setting his play at another difficult time.

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We used iterative deletion in a relatively abstract setting, or not abstract, rather a play setting last time in which were choosing numbers.

我们在相对抽象的背景下探讨迭代剔除,其实也没那么抽象,比如上一讲,我们做的选数字的游戏

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The work is not, in a sense, written simply as a sort of timeless philosophical treatise, but as a dramatic dialogue with a setting, a cast of characters and a firm location in time and place.

但本书的著作目的，不仅是,永恒的的哲学论述，更是戏剧性的对话，内含场景，人物,及一个确切时间与位置。

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