When you talk about something like the Shakespeare canon, the canon of Shakespeare or the canon of great Western Literature that's actually using the term in a bit of an expanded sense.

当你谈到莎士比亚经典，或者伟大西方文学的经典时,那是该词的广义用法。

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Why is the Protestant canon like it is?

为什么新教正典会是现在这样？

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