And what is the role of the shinbashira, the central pillar?

这些被称为“shinbashira”的中心支柱的作用是什么？

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Consumption has become a central pillar of life in industrial lands and is even embedded in social values.

消费已成为工业地区生活的一个核心支柱，甚至已深植于社会价值观中。

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Is the answer that, like a tall pine tree, the Japanese pagoda—with its massive trunk-like central pillar known as shinbashira—simply flexes and sways during a typhoon or earthquake?

答案会不会是这样：日本宝塔——由于有着一根叫做“塔心柱”的巨大树干状中心柱子——就像一棵高大的松树般，在一场台风或地震中仅仅只会来回摇摆和弯曲呢？

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What these policymakers miss is that manufacturing is a central pillar of innovation.

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Even more to the point, Times executives have made building up digital circulation revenues the central pillar of their strategy.

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How big a customer base can it build a relationship with, and keep in touch with, to become a central pillar in their lives?

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