Obviously, he drew upon all sorts of sources and predecessors but psychoanalysis is identified as Freud's creation.

显然，他利用了各种资源,还总结了前人的成果,但精神分析依然被认为,是由弗洛伊德提出的。

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Machiavelli's state itself has universalist ambitions, in many ways, much like its Christian and Roman predecessors.

马奇亚维利的国家本身,也有普遍性的野心，从很多层面看来,很像其基督与罗马帝国的前辈。

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It's about a relationship to predecessors who are seen as too similar.

也是因为和前辈的关系,他们看太像了。

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And it's important to remember that Milton will - this is probably an invariable truth, but I'll qualify it nonetheless - that Milton will typically imitate his predecessors only with a difference.

重要的是我们要记住弥尔顿将,这应是无可否认的事实，但我还是要验证一下,弥尔顿通常将,模仿他的文学前辈而仅留一个不同之处。

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But I would say the advice of your predecessors is very important.

但我觉得,学长学姐们的建议还是很重要的

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You might think of walking in here expecting Professor Hungerford on censorship and getting me instead. But this is a very important idea for Nabokov both as a way of treating predecessors and as a way of writing. And I want to show you that way of writing very early in the book on page 10 now. Let's take a look at that.

你们可能期待亨格福特教授走上讲台,取代我讲审查制度，但这对纳博科夫而言,是非常重要的对待前辈和写作的方法,接下来，我将向你们展示,他的写作风格，在这本书的很前面，第10页，我们一起看一下。

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