Literature has to figure out where to stake its claim.

因此文学需要划分自己的领地。

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Not just to enliven these abstract and distant books but to make clear, to bring out what's at stake in our everyday lives, including our political lives, for philosophy.

不仅是为了将这些深奥抽象的著作形象化,还为了让我们通过哲学辨明,日常生活，包括政治生活中什么才是最关键的。

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The issue for Dell, which lacks the sweep of an IBM or a Hewlett Packard, or even the range of a Cisco, is to figure out how much it can legitimately stake out, and with whom it can partner.

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In policy making, lots of ideas are thrown out in order to set the good apart from the bad, and in order to stake out a position for compromise.

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Troopers have been directed not to stake out bars or follow motorists too closely, says Lt.

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