"We in President Obama's administration understand what it is like to go through a transition period.

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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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We see him, a nobleman that he is, former king that he is, working the soil and how he does this is very illuminating, because he is clearly, according to Hanson, involved in the period after the transition away from an earlier style.

我们所看到的他,出身贵族,履职前任国王,耕种土地,他所作的一切都具有启蒙意义,因为,根据汉森所述,他无疑身处在一个向古风时期,转型的早期年代

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