I'm going to do that at the end for this reason: that it has such a special place in the imagination of our culture.

但是现在我放到最后讲是因为：,它在提供我们文化的想象力方面地位如此特殊。

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It could be, for instance, that language is such a good idea that every culture comes across it and develops it.

比如说,可能只是因为,语言是一个非常棒的创新,所有文化都接受了它,并且发展了它

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There are lots of people who have pointed out to us that before a certain period, there was no such thing as man, and in a variety of quite real senses, after a certain moment in the history of culture, there is also no such thing as man.

很多人向我们指出,在某一特定时间点前是没有人类的，而且在真实意义上，在文化史中的某一特定时刻后，人类也不存在。

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Eikhenbaum in this culture will be using such a word advisedly, almost familiarly, but at the same time it's very interesting that the kind of science he's thinking about is not just any science.

艾肯鲍姆经常故意使用阶级斗争这个词，但有趣的是,他所声称的这种科学,并不只是任意一种普通的科学。

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