Perhaps most importantly, there is the clash between world views, where on the one hand, there is the democratic and progressive trend embodied in the venerable and still extant tradition of Arab liberalism, and on the other hand,the bloody and violent current represented by far too many of the region's seminal figures."

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He is the author and editor of over 30 books including one seminal book, well, many seminal books, but one in particular that I'll mention, Animal Liberation.

他曾撰写编辑书籍30余本,其中一本影响深远，当然，其中的很多都很有影响力,但是我要特别提到这一本，《动物解放》

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Here's where three great figures there are others but these are considered the seminal figures begin to raise questions which complicate the whole issue of consciousness.

看一下这三个伟大的人物,当然了还有其他的人物，但这三位影响最为深远,这三个人物开始提出了一些问题,这些问题使整个意识的问题复杂化了。

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It's a seminal book, which talks about slave religion.

奴隶宗教》是一本具有开创意义的书。

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And Dew wrote a forceful defense of slavery in the wake of this, which became kind of a seminal text for all future pro-slavery writers.

此后后德夫为维护奴隶制写了一份有力的辩护,这份辩护被所有后来的亲奴主义作家,尊为一部文献

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There's an orgasmic element in what Derrida has in mind, so that when he speaks of "the seminal adventure of the trace," toward the end of your essay, you want to put some pressure on that word "seminal."

在德里达的思想中有一种兴奋的元素，所以当他在文章结尾处“,说到，“有创意的追溯之旅“时，大家想要将重点放在，“有创意的“上“

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