You can tell you're in the modern period because they feel the need to explain the theory to you anyway.

你可以感觉到在现代，因为他们觉得有必要向你解释这个理论。

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From 1840 to 1949, legal education in China entered the modern period and it was in a very prosperous state.

1840年至1949年，中国法学教育进入近代时期，从无到有，出现了一个极为兴盛的局面；

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Henri Matisse, Picasso’s rival for supreme artist of the modern period, described him as “a sort of god of painting”.

同处现代艺术巅峰，与毕加索相提并论的亨利.马蒂斯也说：“塞尚于画，如幻如神。”

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He was eighty years old. His death officially marked the end of a historic period in modern jazz.

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I see this as a course that's an introduction to the literature of a period, to modern poetry.

我觉得，这只是一门引导性课程,引导大家关注某一时期的文学创作和现代诗歌。

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In the Middle Ages and to some extent in the Early Modern period, we live in a theocentric world.

在中世纪甚至是现在早期，我们生活在以上帝为中心的世界里。

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Before the modern period, wars were just part of life, like taxes and sickness.

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However, this is not an exhibition that delves into how Cleopatra has been imagined (and romanticised and vilified) in the modern period.

BBC: Who was the real Cleopatra?

Paul Cezanne, for example, was the greatest painter of the modern period but not one of his many masterpieces would be considered an icon.

BBC: Too famous to see?