A "time theme" is always implied in the metaphysical connotation layer of Chekhov's psychological works.

在契诃夫抒情心理作品的形而上意蕴层里，几乎都隐含着一个“时间主题”。

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This is impressive: he dropped out of both Dartmouth and Harvard, and he did so to take laboring jobs, each time enacting a conflict between intellectual life and manual labor that would be a persistent and central theme of his poetry.

令人印象深刻的是，他从,达特茅斯学院和哈佛大学都辍学了,来劳作，每一次都在,脑力劳动和体力劳动间发生矛盾,这也是他的诗歌的核心主题。

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All this is an extended introduction to our Thoughts On the Business of Life quotations post for this time, the theme of which is change and how to deal with it.

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Another time, her theme was war.

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It marks the first time the games have ditched the color theme, and also the first time the games have truly been in three dimensions.

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