He was a Victorian historian preoccupied with the dissolution of Western civilization.

他是一个维多利亚时代的历史学家,专门研究西方文明的瓦解。

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And this is my colleague, Marianne LaFrance, who is actually not smiling in that picture but she studies smiling and smiling in adults, smiling in children, smiling across cultures, and the different social uses of smiling.

另一位是我的同事，法国人玛丽安，她在照片上没有笑,但她研究微笑，成人的微笑，孩子的微笑，文明的微笑，微笑的不同社会功用。

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In my view, we need especially to examine the older traditions of the West that came before the modern era, and to take seriously the possibility that useful wisdom can be found there, especially among the Greeks who began it all.

所以我认为,我们得研究学习古时的,西方文明体系,认真的对待其中,实用智慧的潜在价值,特别是古希腊人的经验

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