人们利用语言表达观念、思想及感情等等，而这一切都是由文化决定性的。

People use language to express their ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc. , and all these are determined by culture.

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我认为它的关键意识——它将阶级和性作为人们生活的决定性影响而作出的深邃理解——很大程度上归功于文化遗产。

My point is that its central consciousness—its profound understanding of class and gender as shaping influences on people's lives—owes much to that earlier literary heritage.

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不过，这部杰作无疑给出了一个正确的结论：在未来几十年里，对美国文化产生最具有决定性影响的——并不一定——将是墨西哥人。

Yet the conclusion of this excellent book is surely right. In the next few decades one of the strongest forces shaping American culture—perhaps the strongest force—will be Mexican.

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