And where we where at the start of the 20th Century in the late 1890's is that we were at a place where there was great confidence in our understanding of the universe, and our understanding of how all matter worked.

0世纪开始讲起,在19世纪的九十年代,人们对于自己,对自然的理解,对自然所有物质,如何工作的理解十分自信。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

There's a kind of colloquial clarity and confidence, quite different from the vernacular language in the Hardy poems I was just reading, which are also poems of the countryside.

有一种口语式的清晰和自信，与哈迪诗中的地方语言十分不同,我也在阅读关于乡村的诗歌。

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