(1)Japanese culture being as influential as it is,
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the outcome was that the habit soon spread around Asia.
划线部份要怎么翻，being在这里是 "be + ing" 还是 名词，什么意思呢?!
(2)Confident that no one would dare question his authority,
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这边是不是应该放动词，可是confident好像是形容词?!
dare & question 在这边应该都是动词吧?!
the general demanded that the group of soldiers clean his room for him.
(3)~，who turned people on to doing it for photographs.
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to在这里是 in order to 的意思吗?!
(4)They have opened museums to exhibit some of the strange records out there.
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在那里不是可以直接放个there，out there是有什么不同的意涵?!还是out是跟着
exhibit的?!