That's not just a set of functions--variables, as one might say in the lab.It's produced by genius.

它不仅仅只是一套机器，像人们在实验室所见的一样多变，它是由天才创作的。

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One thinks of D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, for example, in which the central character, Paul Morel, is crippled by an Oedipus complex that he can't master and the difficulties and complications of the plot are of this kind.

拿D。H。劳伦斯的《儿子与情人》来说，里面的核心人物保罗，被自己不能控制的俄狄浦斯情节困扰,复杂多变的情节也就由此展开。

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