In other words, once you start thinking about the evanescence of dominance, you're also thinking about literary history.

也就是说，每一种文学支配地位的消失，形成了文学史。

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Puritans at this moment in English history were placing, when thinking about how things should work at church, more and more emphasis on the sermon, the institution of the sermon.

清教徒指的是在英国历史上，致力于研究教会事务，并把重点越来越多的放在布道训诫之上的人。

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But this was a moment of particular and headlined notoriety in the history of academic thinking about literature, and a moment in which academic thinking about literature had a peculiar influence on topics much broader than literature.

但那是一个臭名昭著的时代,在文学学术思想的历史上，也是那个时候，文学学术思想,对比文学宽泛得多的话题所产生的特别影响。

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In passing, I just want to say that Homer, of course, is the basic text, the basic document for all Greek thinking in every area that you can imagine throughout the rest of Greek history.

顺便提一下,我只想说《荷马史诗》,毫无疑问,是古希腊一切文献资料的基石,贯穿了希腊的整个历史,无论是在你能想象到的任何领域

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