History seems to remember the heroic moments and the triumphs That people remember those great things But they don't know the heroic ones either.

历史总是选择记住那些光辉的时刻,那些胜利的时刻,人们总是记住很伟大的东西,他们也不知道那些光辉的时刻。

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These prophets delivered their oracles at critical junctures in Israel's history, in the nation's history, so their words are only going to make sense to us if we first understand the particular historical crises that they are addressing.

这些告知发表预言，总是在一些关键的转折期,在以色列历史中，国家的历史中，因此他们的话只对我们有意义,如果我们首先懂得某些特别的历史性危机,先知们所提到的。

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I always throw that back at people and say, damn it, read some history.

我总是将这个球抛回去并说,你这家伙,还是多读点历史吧

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And just to give you some small defense of that approach, I always like to ask students, "Suppose we didn't have a single historical record, no newspaper, no diaries. You know nothing totally reliable for what happened in the latter part of the eighteenth century in America."

我可以给你们一个反驳的理由,我总是问学生们,"如果没有历史文献,报纸和日记,那么对于美国十八世纪后期的历史,你们将一无所知"

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