It has often been pointed out that in the past 4000 years more wars have been fought for the possession of the tiny strip of land known as Canaan, or the land of Israel, or Palestine, than have been fought for almost any other area in the world.

很多人指出，在过去的4000多年中,为了占领这一小块土地，有过多次战争,这块叫迦南，或以色列或巴勒斯坦的土地，这些战争远多于世界其他地区。

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In the debates ranging for the last thirty years or so over the value of traditional pedagogy and over the value of canonical reading lists, Milton is always cited, invariably cited, as the canon's most stalwart representative of oppressive religious and social values.

过去30多年来，在传统教育学和权威必读书目,对价值的争辩中，米尔顿总是，无一例外的，被看做是英国文学经典中,宣扬压迫性的宗教社会价值的最坚定代表。

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We've learned a lot about the mechanics of how humans work as organisms over the last 100 years or so, how we work as sort of physical objects that have to obey the laws of physics that you know about.

在过去一百多年间,我们已经了解很多,人体作为一个,有机组织的工作机理,以及人体作为一个物理实体,遵循人所共知的那些物理定律的原理

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And in the last 20 years or So, this has been a huge and vibrant area of study where people are trying to wire up machines that can do brain-like things from components that look a lot like neurons and are wired up together as neurons are.

在过去的二十多年里,这是一个非常活跃的研究领域,研究者们试图应用,外表和连结方式均与神经元相类似的元件,制造出具备大脑功能的机器

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