- Those of you with backgrounds in history or we've seen -- or remember World War II with technologies that were used in it might know of the Enigma machine, which is kind of the same idea.

你们其中有历史背景的人或者我们看到的-,或记得起的第二次世界大战中使用的,可能知道的英格玛装置，那是一种同样的思想。

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set in World War Two, so a very big moment in our history, so.

以二战为背景，这是我们历史上非常重要的时刻。

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I want to back up now because I think it's important to fill in a little bit of the historical context behind that long but important prose treatise.

我想要退回去往前看是因为我认为,补充一些历史背景对于,解读那篇冗长却又很关键的政论是很重要的。

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There is the backdrop of class struggle which is understood as crucial.

阶级斗争作为历史背景,在其中扮演了极其重要的角色。

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Milton's responding to an immediate set of historical circumstances.

弥尔顿对于当时的历史氛围背景的回答。

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He throws his high prophetic talents into the construction ; of the Saint Peter speech; and in 1645, historical circumstances being what they were, he was able to look back at this passage and actually claim that it had been a genuinely prophetic utterance.

他把自己预示的才能投入在,圣彼得的演说之中;,在164年，历史背景如此复杂，他能够重新回顾这段,并且做出一段真诚的预知性的论调。

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The bad prejudice is when we leap to the conclusion, without thinking for a moment that there might be some other historical horizon, that we know what plastic means.

坏先见就是我们直接得出结论，也没有想一下,可能有其他的历史背景，就觉得我们知道plastic是什么了。

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Against the backdrop of Marx's thought pervading - not just Russian life but beginning to pervade Russian government-- against this backdrop, the idea of struggle, as in class struggle, is going to predominate.

马克思的思想不但席卷,俄国普通百姓的生活，并且开始影响俄国政府-,在这样的背景下，人们认为阶级斗争是历史发展的主要推动力。

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