But Warren says the good news comes at a time when researchers are facing a big obstacle - limited funding.

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Bourgeois and burghers, as I said last time, are urban residents who are losing their privileges on the continent to big-time absolute states.

中产阶级和市民,正如我上次所讲的,这些城市居民是那些在欧洲大陆,被绝对主义国家剥夺权利的人

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Now, big-time, powerful absolute monarchs don't want that.

但是绝对统治者不希望地方政府有特权

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What he suggested is "Manhattan-Project-type attacks upon what I consider to be the truly Big Problems of our time, not only for psychology but for all human beings " with any sense of historical urgency".

他表明“曼哈顿计划“反驳了,当时最大的问题，这不仅是对心理学，甚至对所有人类都,带来了历史紧迫感。

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And,also,because he just sat around and played cards all the time and ate and drank, he became quite a large man,and occasionally he would get up and go and look at the relics of Marie Antoinette, and then he'd go back and play cards for big stakes; he was a big-time gambler.

而且,由于他只是坐在那儿,整日玩牌,饮酒作乐,他变得很肥,有时候他站起来,去看看玛丽王后的遗物,然后又回来豪赌,他是个有名的赌徒

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