Buckley isn't an archaeologist. He studies tree rings, which record the growth history of trees that can be hundreds of years old, or even older.

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It is nevertheless a distinction that does exist, once you think about it, that deserves to exist and deserves to be remembered when we think about the variety of ways in which literary history can be written.

但是这区别既然存在，只要你思考它，它就有存在的理由,值得被记住，并被记录到,文学的无限发展可能的历史中。

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So that can be unsettling when we think of this as happening at a certain contemporaneous moment in the history of thought.

如果把这个问题放在思想史的特定时期来想,它可能是难以解决的。

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The idea of risk, that economic risks can be pooled, is an intuitive one that has occurred to people throughout history.

风险理论，即认为经济风险可以分摊，是历史过程中,人们逐渐发现的理论。

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What kind of knowledge, if any, can be had from the shattering experiences of revolution or rape, those models of history that I proposed last time?

什么知识能从我上次讲到的,历史形式的的粉碎性的经验里，比如革命或者强奸里获得？

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It's a doctrine that can be found in every religion and in most philosophical systems throughout history.

你能够在有史以来的所有宗教,和绝大多数哲学体系中找到这个假说

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As you move later in their history, you find you can guess that there would be councils that were not purely of nobles but might be of wealthy people, but they would always be a minority and come from the upper class.

随着你们进一步了解希腊的历史,你们能轻易猜想到议会组成人员中,不仅仅只有贵族,还有富人,但他们都是来自上层阶级的少数人

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So this is a subtle thing because you think about the current election, there's a debate about whether Hilary Clinton, for example, can choose right now to be at the center of the democratic party given her past history of votes, for example, on the Iraq War.

这是个微妙的事情,因为你联想到现在的选举,举个例子,关于希拉里·克林顿能否选择,作为民主党竞选中间派参选就颇有争议,考虑到她的参选记录,例如在伊拉克战争中

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Any device can be the dominant at a given moment in the development of literary history.

任何一种方法都可以,在文学发展史的特定时期占支配地位。

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In the meantime, Trotsky's book is a shot fired across the bow of those forms of "aestheticism"--quote, unquote -which can be understood as self-involved, self-preoccupied, and indifferent to history and class struggle.

同时，托洛斯基的攻击唯美主义,他这样评价，它,唯美主义可以被理解为一种纯粹的自我欣赏，漠视历史和阶级斗争。

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When you retire--you can actually get it now, electronically, your entire employment history, all your contributions-- when you retire, there will be a formula-- you can find it on the Social Security system website-- which resembles the formula that they did in 1889.

现在你退休之后可以自动得到，你这一生的工作情况，还有你全部的投保记录-,当你退休的时候-,你可在社会保障体系网站上找到一个公式-,类似于1889年使用的那个公式。

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