There were a lot of other things that happened in the nineteenth century that advanced information technology and made finance really powerful.

9世纪还发生了许多其他的事情,推动了信息技术的进步,也使得金融开始强大起来。

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And this is one of the major revolutions in evolutionary biology over the last half century.

这是过去半个世纪,进化生物学的重大进步之一。

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Progress in the eyes of the philosophers of the eighteenth century, though they would have been very angry to hear me say this, was something like the equivalent of the Christian hope for immortality.

进步在十八世纪的哲学家眼中,尽管他们也许会对我的说法很不满,与基督教对永生的信仰类似

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What the Market Revolution was, in so many ways, was an engine, a tremendous Charles Sellers has written a famous book on this it was a tremendous engine for what became arguably the most prevalent idea of the entire nineteenth century in America, and that's the notion of progress.

在很大层面上,市场革命,就是一个巨大的发动机,查尔斯·塞勒斯,曾经为此写过一部书,市场这个巨大的发动机,它带来了十九世纪最流行且有争议的看法,即,对进步的观念

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