It was just a more refined, more highly evolved, version of Ancient Near Eastern religion.

这是一种更加精炼的，更加进化的,古近东宗教版本。

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Well, it was published originally as an article in 1979, but this is also near the end of a period of flourishing that Derrida's essay inaugurates, and other things have begun to become crucial.

它初次出版是在1979年，作为一篇文章发表，但是这也快到了繁盛时期的末端,德里达的论文出现的那个时期，其它的东西开始变得重要。

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As Wellington said at Waterloo, it was a damn near thing.

威灵顿在滑铁卢用的也是这么一招

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