At the same time, I do mean to give you some sense of the period in which they're writing, some sense of modernism as a field, as one of the richest fields in English language writing.

同时，我也会给你们提供一些背景知识,来了解作者创作的年代，以及现代主义的思想领域，就其作为英语文学创作最丰富的领域之一而言。

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But I just want to read one brief passage from his biographer, a man named John Aubrey, who knew him.

但是我只想读一小段,来自他的传记，作者是John，Aubrey，他了解霍布斯。

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