此后，尽管经历了许多挫折，但是西欧以及后来他们的殖民地北美一直在稳步前进，以超越其他地方的人类。

Henceforth, despite many setbacks, the western Europeans - and later their colonial Cousins in North America as well - steadily pulled ahead of the human pack.

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威尔士给其他人设定了规则，他也为科幻小说充满活力地进入20世纪并且有所超越奠定了基础。

Wells set the bar for everyone else, and laid the foundation to ensure that science fiction would be very alive and well into the 20th century and beyond.

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