Now as soon as we start talking about things like the dominant, we are also aware of the evanescence of dominance.

说到支配性，我们就必须认识到支配并不是不变的。

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In other words, once you start thinking about the evanescence of dominance, you're also thinking about literary history.

也就是说，每一种文学支配地位的消失，形成了文学史。

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