What's the dominant in the text is just the stuff, the stuff in his knapsack listed with as little implication as possible.

主题占支配地位，重要的是那些在背包里几乎没有任何含义的东西。

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But, that's all changed, but the reality of the situation, that Paris is overly dominant, has not changed at all.

但是今非昔比,实际的情况是,巴黎的绝对支配地位丝毫没有变化过

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but they no longer have the importance that they once did because they no longer manage the currency.

但是它们再也没有当初的重要的地位,因为它们不再管理货币了。

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If the Israelites were, in fact, basically Canaanites, who had withdrawn from the larger collective, who insisted on the overlordship of Yahweh, then Canaanites who did not join them in this were a special threat to the new Yahwism.

如果以色列人实际上是迦南人，他们从大团体中撤离，他们坚持耶和华的霸主般的唯一地位，那么没有加入他们的迦南人,对于新的耶和华崇拜便是一种威胁。

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That's a horrible thing to say, that the author has no legal status."

作者如果没有法律地位是很恐怖的“

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