The subject matter itself becomes the dominant device, and it implies in your imagination a way to construct it, but the way to construct it is not the dominant.

但是在奥布莱恩的文章里，主题被首先给出，主题占支配地位，在想象中引导你构建情节。

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Because it gets your imagination going. So yes, I would say absolutely as a student, it would be a place to visit.

因为它激发你的想象。所以是的，我认为对一个学生来说，这里绝对值得参观。

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The question we turned to was, just let your imagination run free.

我们转向的问题是，放飞你们的想象力。

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What it meant was that in principle, your power was greater than any challenge that could come from those underlings, those craven reptiles in your imagination over whom you ruled.

这意味着在原则上,你的权利大到,不会受到属下的任何质疑,在你的眼里他们应该是低声下气的应声虫

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