This all, of course, leads to a change in what European historians taught us to call mentalities, mentalite.

这一切造成了改变,欧洲历史学家,把这个叫做思想,心态

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What it refers to is people get the impression that they can control randomness.

准神奇式思考指的是人们认为,自己可以做出某些行动,解除原来的决定或改变历史

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