plastic The good prejudice is our prior awareness that plastic meant something different in the eighteenth century than it means now.

好偏见是我们预先知道,在十八世纪的意思与今天的不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The strings are now metallic but sixteenth, seventeenth to eighteenth century they would have been made out of cat or sheep gut.

弦现在是金属的,但在十六,十七,到十八世纪,弦是用猫肠或羊肠线制作的

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I was particularly interested in metaphysical poetry political philosophy -- I wrote my thesis on a radical political philosopher of the 17th century of the civil war period.

我尤其感兴趣的是玄学诗派,和政治哲学，我的毕业论文,就是有关一名激进的政治哲学家,他生活在内战的十八世纪。

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