But those "nobodies" - long lost to history - are about to be recognized for their contributions to American literature with the publication of "Maid as Muse: How Servants Changed Emily Dickinson's Life and Language."

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We so long had this game of sort of always looking for the central theme of Southern history, the central theme of the South.

我们一直在苦苦寻找,南方,南方的历史的,中心内涵

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The fourth is war, and we got peace movements in American history and anti-war fervor and ferment, of all kinds, for a very long time.

第四点是战争,我们美国历史上的和平运动,酝酿的反战情绪,诸此种种,由来已久了

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Idealism is a position that's got a very long history in philosophy and for many classes would be worth taking a fair bit of time to consider more carefully.

唯心主义这个观点,在哲学史上占据了很长一段时间,并且值得我们花几节课,时间用心解读这个观点

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For thinkers like Tocqueville for example regimes are embedded in the deep structures of human history that have determined over long centuries the shape of our political institutions and the way we think about them.

举例来说，对于像托克维尔之类的思想家而言,政体内嵌于人类历史的结构深处,许多世纪以来决定了,我们政治机构的形态,及我们对它们的看法。

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