He is more steeped in the sensuous beauty of classical literature, the classical tradition, than probably anyone else of his generation.

他比同时代的任何人都沉湎于古典文学感觉上的美，一种经典的传统的美。

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Forget the paltry crown of laurel placed atop the heads of great writers in the classical tradition.

忘记那些,伟大作家戴的没价值的传统桂冠。

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Now musicians, being a bit more uptight oftentimes classical musicians, than other more spirited folks have developed this tradition of using conducting patterns.

现在的乐师,常常更加拘束,那些古典音乐乐师,相对于其他普通人更拘束,发展出了这样的传统,采取指挥手势

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Was it the world in which tradition says Homer himself lived, the transition first to the Archaic and then to the Classical Period, the period in which we think about the dawn of the polis?

或是那个传说中荷马曾经生活的时代吗,那个时代先经历了古代的转变,而后到了古典主义时期,也就是我们所说的城邦萌芽的时期

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Now, we're going to listen to a piece of music here from the tradition of classical India and I thought we might have a sitar player in here.

现在,我们要听一段,传统的印度古典音乐,我原以为我们能请来一位锡塔尔琴手

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The classical hoplite formation then was not the long lived military institution of scholarly tradition, but merely one phase in a history of almost four centuries of slow change towards ever denser and more cohesive heavy infantry formations."

这种方阵的形成,并不是经过长期传承的传统军事制度,只是步兵阵型演变的一个阶段,战阵逐渐向更加紧密坚固的步兵阵型转化,而这个变化持续了约有四个世纪"

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