"Europe is very wary about this,". "The United States rhetorically still supports it, but no-one is pushing for it.

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He's actually enacting, and he's enacting it rhetorically, the fragmentation of religious culture in seventeenth-century England.

他实际上在演绎，用他的修辞在演绎，17世纪英格兰破碎的宗教文化。

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A mobile army of metaphors, metonymies, anthropomorphisms in short, a sum of human relations which became poetically and rhetorically intensified," "and are now no longer of account as coins but are debased."

一支由暗喻，转喻，拟人组成的机动部队,简单来说，人们之间的关系,诗意般地在修辞上加强了“,人们之间的关系不再值钱，而被贬低了“

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What is life?" he asks, rhetorically in the introduction.

什么是生命？“他在介绍部分煞有介事地问。

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