"And the U.S.State Department sentenced no opposition figures, intellectuals,journalists or bloggers to prisons in Syria,Egypt,Saudi Arabia and elsewhere around the Middle East, where they were subject to torture, rape and murder.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Notice something about all of those figures: Shakespeare is preoccupied with figures who may or may not be crazy.

看一下这些人物：,莎士比亚专注于疯了或者没疯的人物。

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How is Foucault going to mount an argument in which privileged authors -that is to say, figures whom one cites positively and can somehow or another stay in the picture?

福柯又如何为特殊的作者辩护呢,特殊的作者即是经常被一个人引用,这些作家能被辩护吗？

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And team gear is not the only souvenir available in Vancouver there are also the official Olympic mascots, including a Sasquatch or yeti called Quatchi and three other figures that combine aboriginal mythological figures.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

It's as if a gap has opened up, a gap between the official argument of and the rhetorical figures or the metaphors, Milton's elaborately construed language, which he uses to illustrate that argument.

这就像是一个鸿沟在专著中的正式论点,和运用修辞和比喻的部分之间打开了，弥尔顿精心地解释和分析他用来，阐述这个论点的语言。

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