I mean, in many ways, to be sure, Hobbes was a product of his time, ? and what else could he be?

在很多方面看来，确实，霍布斯是他那个时代的产物，他还能是什么呢？

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Peter the Great was a huge sort of power-forward-sized guy at a time when people were very small.

在那个民众极端渺小的时代,彼得大帝却手握重权

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Their first answer was well you have to remember we were set up in Abe Lincoln's day to manage the national banks--that's our mission.

他立刻回答道,你应该记得,我们机构是在林肯那个时代建立的,我们的任务仅仅是管理本土的银行。

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But this was a moment of particular and headlined notoriety in the history of academic thinking about literature, and a moment in which academic thinking about literature had a peculiar influence on topics much broader than literature.

但那是一个臭名昭著的时代,在文学学术思想的历史上，也是那个时候，文学学术思想,对比文学宽泛得多的话题所产生的特别影响。

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He was so much bigger than everybody else, so people really were not taken aback, because this was a time when physical imperfections were commonplace.

他虽然比普通人个子大很多,但人们并不会感到惊异,因为在那个时代有生理缺陷极为寻常

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Under Louis Brandeis -Brandeis wanted companies to always present the information, but for him it always meant presenting a document, so they had something called a prospectus, for example.

路易斯·布兰代斯...,他希望公司能够始终提供信息,在他那个时代,是指提供文档,比如当时称为招股说明书一类的文件

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