So this is, in effect, the backdrop in which in the American academy--influenced, - as we'll now see, by certain trends in the British academy-- arose in the thirties and in the forties.

所以实际上,这就是当时美国学术界，受英国学术界影响-,在三四十年代崛起的背景。

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James Henry Hammond starts writing in the forties and into the fifties and he takes it much further, and he writes over and over and over again that, said James Henry Hammond, is that too damn many northerners didn't understand it is the way of the world as it is, and they ought to stop talking about the world as it ought to be.

詹姆斯.亨利.哈蒙德不惑之年才开始写作,到了五十岁仍笔耕不辍,他不停地写作,不停地著书,詹姆斯·亨利·哈蒙德说道,大多数北方人不能明白,这就是世界的本原,他们应该停止有关世界本源的讨论

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The Clouds was written in 423 when Socrates was in his mid-forties and the Aristophanic Socrates is essentially what we call a natural philosopher.

云》剧写于公元前423年3,当时苏格拉底约45岁,亚里斯多芬尼斯时的苏格拉底,基本上就是我们所谓的自然哲学家。

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