That is to say, maybe the most central and, for me, possibly the most fascinating question theory asks is well, what is literature?

对我而言，理论提出的最核心，也许是最有趣的一个问题是,文学是什么？

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Foucault, by the way, doesn't mention Nietzsche, but he might very well because Nietzsche's idea of "genealogy" is perhaps the central influence on Foucault's work.

福柯，没有提到尼采，但是他可能很喜欢，因为尼采的“宗谱“理论“,可能是对福柯作品影响最大的了。

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I think you can see why Areopagitica has been memorialized for centuries now as one of the central precursors, well, to a number of things.

我认为你能看到《论出版自由》作为最主要的先驱,流传和纪念百年是有很多原因的。

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Now, texts from Ancient Near Eastern cultures suggest that a central function of the rituals that were performed in sanctuaries was to secure the perpetual aid and blessing of a well-disposed deity.

古近东文化的课文中提出,在圣所里进行的仪式的一个主要功能,是保证能够向神灵获得永久地帮助和祝福。

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Well what it means is that starting in the 1930s we began to think of central banks as managing the money stock to stabilize the economy.

好吧，它意味着从二十世纪三十年代开始,我们就认为中央银行是,为了稳定经济而,管理金融债券的。

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We also need some measure of-- We've been talking here about measures of central tendency only and in finance we need, as well, measures of dispersion, which is how much something varies.

我们也需要其他的指标,目前为止,我们只讨论了集中趋势指标,在金融学中,我们同样需要,离散趋势指标以衡量参数的变化程度

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