Margaret Brown was a social and political activist in the formative years of the modern American West.

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Now it's odd that this text does have the same formative function.

这样的话这本书的权威性就收到了质疑。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So, you see, this is formative information.

这就是基本的信息。

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The generations of students that are coming to University today have essentially grown up with the Internet. And some of them are the first generation Where the internet have been part of their life in their Formative years. For most of us, the people of my age, The internet came later.

现在进大学的这一代学生,成长在因特网的环境下,一些人是伴随着因特网成长的第一代,网络是他们性格形成期的一部分,然而对我们这个年纪的人来说，因特网是后来才有的。

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So while again, what we read for today is not in itself literary theory, it is nevertheless crucially formative for a great many of the developments in literary theory that we'll be studying.

再重申一遍，我们今天读到的并不是文学理论，但是对于文学理论,的发展却又有重大贡献。

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