For nearly twenty years, Manning Marable, a historian at Columbia, labored on what he hoped would be a definitive scholarly work on Malcolm X.
在将近二十年的时间里，哥伦比亚大学的历史学家曼宁·马拉贝一直致力于关于马尔科姆·艾克斯的一部学术著作的创作。他希望那是一部有所定论的著作。
Although Manning Marable may not have succeeded in writing a definitive work, his considerable scholarship does remind us how much is elided by any tale of a pilgrim's progress.
尽管曼宁·马拉贝不可能成功地写出一篇有结论的著作，但是他博学多识也提醒我们，有多少事情被这位朝觐者的进步所省略。
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