Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said France unilaterally increased its troop presence last September to some 3,800, and will not even consider another change until a conference on Afghan aid being convened by Britain in late January.

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Perhaps we want to write like Shakespeare, maybe we want to be a writer like the great Old Testament prophet Isaiah. But the last thing we should be burdened with, Milton's suggesting here, is the fear of being late.

也许我们想向莎士比亚一样，也许想成为,伟大的旧约先知以赛亚,但弥尔顿说我们最不应该被，担心迟到所困。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Beginning in the late 1630s at the moment in which Lycidas is being written, Milton is becoming increasingly radical.

在17世纪30年代的晚期,即的创作时期，弥尔顿正变得愈发的激进和极端。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And the reason I was was that I was interested in how the modern world came into being and it came into being I think in the late 16th century in some sense.

这是因为我对,现代世界的形成很感兴趣，而我认为,从某种意义上它是在十七世纪末期形成的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It wasn't caused by the Fed's sudden tightening against inflation. It was different it was this recession was not understood not anticipated; the Fed came in late to cut interest rates to try to prevent it from being worse because it just didn't seem to have any reason for happening.

它不是由于美联储对通货膨胀的,突然紧缩政策造成的，它不同之处在于,这个经济衰退没有被理解，没有事先准备好；,美联储试图阻止它恶化而,降低利率为时已晚，因为,它似乎看起来没有任何理由发生。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选