It becomes, at certain moments in the evolution of forms according to the Russian formalists, the dominant.

根据俄国形式主义者们的说法,它只是在进化中变成了支配而已。

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Notice the importance -and we'll come back to it-- of the word "dominant": "the dominant" in the thinking of the Russian formalists and the struggle for dominance among species in a habitat.

注意这个词的重要性,我们还会讲到，支配，这个词：,俄国形式主义者所说的支配,和物种间争夺栖息地的支配。

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