Furthermore doesn't the study of old books often very old books ? risk overlooking the issues facing us today?
此外,研究这些巨著,通常年代久远,不会有忽略我们今日所面临议题的风险吗?
So we're reading things that people have written about Herodotus much more recently.
所以我们在阅读年代近得多的人写的关于他的东西。
All right, so you didn't grow up in the late 1800s like I did, you don't have to worry about this sort of stuff, right?
好,你们所处的年代不是我们,80年代那会儿了,你们不用担心,这类事情对不对?
Yet, he remains in many ways as contested for us as he was in his own time.
或者说,他依旧停留在他的年代里,与我们展开争论。
I think the smallpox vaccine we made now would probably be better, more effective, and safer than the vaccines we made in the '50s.
我相信若我们现在制造天花疫苗,应该会比五十年代的更有效更安全
Then there was deregulation, which started around the 1970s, and the events we've seen--that we're seeing today -are outcomes of both the regulation and the deregulation.
到了70年代,金融的去监管化开始兴起,我们如今所见证的诸多事件,是监管与去监管共同作用的结果
It's not that critical. -Also... ... well exactly it doesn't affect the... You know the unemployment rate has been lower during this period than in the '70s as we talked about a few minutes ago so... Let me quote to you Pat Buchanan, Ken, alright?
没那么重要,对吧,-再则。,它确实不影响。,要知道,这段时期的失业率,一直低于70年代,这个我们几分钟前曾提到过。,肯,我们先来看看帕特·布坎南怎么说吧?
And you could build barricades across smaller streets, but not across big boulevards, and that was part of the rebuilding of Paris in the 1850s and '60s, more about that in a minute and much more about that later, because it's fascinating; at least, I think it's fascinating.
但街垒只适用于小巷,对于大路就不那么适用了,修街垒也算是巴黎十九世纪五六十年代重建的一部分,这个问题我们以后再谈,因为它引人入胜,至少我觉得如此
This is the pulse of music and music theorists ever since the late fifteenth century from music theory Francinus Gafurius on we could go all the way back then have said that the pulse in music is basically at the same tempo as the human pulse which comes out to be about oh, we'll say seventy-two beats if you will, pulses, per minute.
这是音乐的脉搏,从十五世纪晚期到现在的音乐理论家们,像弗朗西斯·加福瑞,我们回到那个年代,那时就曾说过,音乐的律动,和人类的脉搏节奏基本一致,就是说相当于,我们说如果是你的脉搏的话,每分钟七十二下左右
You've got to think about that and what it means and how were they transmitted and preserved without ; the means of technology, obviously, that we have today; and what was so exciting in the middle of the twentieth century was the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.I'm sure that you've heard of them.
你们需要考虑到这点及这意味着什么,还有在没有当今我们所拥有的技术的年代,是如何传播和留传下来的;,在20世纪中期时最令人兴奋的就是发现了,死海古卷,我确定你们曾经听说过。
We didn't have a clue back then how to explain life in material terms.
在那个年代,我们还不知道如何从物质的角度去解释生命
It's in light of this ongoing cultural tension in the period that, I think, we can understand some of the strange confusions concerning chastity that we find in the poem that we're looking at.
根据那年代持续的文化紧张状态,我认为我们可以理解那些,在诗中读到的涉及贞节的困惑。
In the time we're starting this course in the seventeenth century, besides London, which is this gigantic place, the biggest cities in England were Norwich and Exeter, and York in the north.
我们这节课的起始年代,即十七世纪,除了伦敦这个巨型的城市,英国最大的城市是诺里奇和埃克塞特,以及北部的约克
you know, I mean, we're as maybe in the 80s and the 90s.
我的意思是,我们好像在80、90年代。
on the U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt from the 30's and 40's.
我们介绍的在三四十年代的美国总统罗斯福。
Let's do what Maslow talked about back in 1950s.
我们根据Maslow20世纪50年代所说的来行事。
It's something like what we had in the '30s, although they have other institutions that protect homebuyers, so they don't see the turmoil that we saw in the 1930s.
就像我们上世纪30年代的一样,但是他们有另外的机构来保护购房者,因此他们没有经历我们在30年代的动荡
Yet, we should also avoid the second, equally powerful temptation, which is to reject Aristotle out of hand, because his views do not correspond with our own.
另外我们还要避免第二种,同样强大的诱惑,那就是拒亚里士多德于门外,因为他的观点不见容于我们的年代。
We differ from lower animals and our brains, which are much more capable of storing and processing information, but we're living in a time of revolution when machines are challenging or competing with our brains.
我们不同于其他低等动物,我们的大脑更能够存储和处理信息,不过身处改革年代,机器开始挑战甚至是,和我们的大脑开始竞争。
Some of these books which we think are roughly from a certain date, they will contain narrative snippets or legal materials or oral traditions that may even date back or stretch back further in time, and they were perhaps transmitted orally and then ended up in these written forms.
有些篇章只是被我们粗略地认为出现于那个年代,其中包含的故事片段或律法材料或口头传统,其实也许能够追溯到更久远,所以这些很可能一开始是被口头传播,后来才用文字形式记载的。
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