Face-to-face contact is by no means the only form of communication and during the last two hundred years the art of mass communication has become one of the dominating factors of contemporary society.
面对面的交流绝不是沟通的唯一形式，在过去的两百年里，大众传播艺术已经成为当代社会的主导因素之一。
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She certainly was a dominating figure, a leader who gave her name to a political philosophy.
她的确是个很有影响力的人物，是一位能使一派政治哲学以她而命名的领袖。
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In the western world, at least, English is a dominating language in popular culture.