You can look at it with those poems in mind where Yeats imagines a new world coming into being, ushered in through the blood of the old.

你们可以回忆一下那两首诗,其中叶芝想象了一个新的世界，那从旧世界鲜血里开辟。

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You have 500 miles of canals dug just in the middle decades of the seventeenth century.

仅在十七世纪中叶,这里就开凿了,五百英里的人工运河

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When you get to say the middle of the nineteenth century and the work of the great English historian of Ancient Greece, George Grote, he begins his story in 776 with the Olympic Games.

十九世纪中叶,有一位研究古希腊的,伟大英国历史学家乔治·格罗特,他从公元776年的奥运会开始执笔

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Amsterdam, by mid-seventeenth century, by 1650, increases to 150,000 people.

阿姆斯特丹,到十七世纪中叶 也就是1650年,人口增长至十五万

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You can talk about the origins of French nationalism in the middle of the eighteenth century, but it's very closely tied to this dynasty, at least until they lop off the guy's head in 1793.

你也可以畅谈在十八世纪中叶,法国民族主义的起源,但是它和法国王朝制联系很紧密,至少直到一七九三年,那个家伙被砍头前都如此

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There is no writing in Greece from let us say 1100 or so on until the middle of the eighth century B.C., rough date 750 and then the writing that they do have is completely unrelated to the writing that was lost.

没有文字记载的时期是从,公元前一千一百年左右到,公元前八世纪中叶,差不多是公元前七百五十年,而之后他们拥有的文献,就完全与那些遗失的史料脱钩了

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But the period of absolute rule really begins in the mid-seventeenth century, and is to be found in those states that had specific kinds of social structures.

但是绝对主义实际上起源于十七世纪中叶,［absolutism普遍的翻译为绝对主义或者绝对君主制］ 而且只出现在那些有着特定社会结构的国家里

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