作者提到了各种海洋岛屿上鸟类和珊瑚鱼物种的预估数量，以显示已经积累了多少关于海洋物种的知识。

The author mentions the estimated numbers of birds and coral fish species on various Oceanic islands in order to demonstrate how much knowledge about Oceanic species has been accumulated.

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作者提到文化转向来表达什么意思？

What does the author mean by a cultural shift.

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最后，作者提到学习外语的人通常意志力都很强。

One last thing, the writer mentions people who learn foreign languages usually have a lot of willpower.

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It would have been a perfect symmetry because last time we quoted Paul Ricoeur to the effect that these authors, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, were--and this is Ricoeur's word--"masters."

这里其实是很平衡的,因为上次我们提到保罗，里克尔的时候大意是说这些作者，包括马克思，尼采和弗洛伊德，按里克尔的说法，都是大师“

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In the controversies that are leading up to the Licensing Act, one of the authors most frequently mentioned as posing a special threat to the well-being of the English nation is our very own Milton.

这些论战导致了《权利法》的出台，最常提到的对英国的繁荣富强有着特殊威胁的,作者之一就是弥尔顿。

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There is a very different image of the personified word in Lolita, and I'm going to refer now to an essay, a 1992 essay, Martin Amis by the British novelist Martin Amis.

Lolita》呈现的则是人性世界的另一种景象，我将要提到一篇1992年的论文，作者是英国小说家。

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