The museum's exhibits provide a lesson in modern European and American history.

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Peter is one of those cases in European history where one person's personality and interest does make an enormous difference.

彼得是欧洲历史上那些,凭借自己的个性和喜好,起到重大影响的例子之一

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Now, one of the points I made last week, for those of you who were here, is that one of the themes that ties European history together is the growth of the modern state, of state-making.

上节课来了的人可能记得,我谈到一个观点,现代国家的形成和民族国家的构建,是联系欧洲历史的一个主题

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And that's something that we'll talk about from time to time in the class, but it's something you'd get more out of,for example, if you studied an art history class, or if you studied a literature class that talked about some of these issues in later European times.

这些我们在课堂上,会经常讨论，但如果你参加其他课，会学到得更多，比如艺术史课程，或者文学课,也会讨论欧洲各个时期的宗教问题。

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