历史学家利用他们对过去时代的所知构建历史体系填补历史空白，扩大我们的理解范围，从他们所知的事实中绘制逻辑性的推断使他们的叙述更加活跃。
Historians construct history by closing the gaps in their knowledge about the past, enlarge our under - standing, and enliven their narrative by drawing logical inferences from their assembled facts.
他的第一本书——《无伴奏大提琴组曲》——就生动地记录了他在世界范围内寻找巴赫乐谱原本的过程（结果是没有找到），还不时地偏离一下叙述主线，穿插一些巴赫和卡萨尔斯的生平轶事。
“The Cello Suites”, his first book, vividly chronicles his international search for the original, and unfound, Bach score.
本书作者休斯先生是《时代》杂志的艺术批评家，生于澳大利亚，他以相当出色的叙述，成功地完成了这部涉及范围广泛的著作。
Mr Hughes, the Australian-born art critic of Time magazine, comes as near as anyone to fulfilling that job description and for much of this wide-ranging volume he succeeds magnificently.
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