Hawthorne wrote a short story you should read sometime, as a balance to all of this optimism of this period, irresistible as that optimism was.

霍桑写了篇短文,有机会你应当读读看,他给那个狂热乐观主义时代打了一针清醒剂,因为那是种不容抗拒的乐观

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He found it and it was the excavation of the site of Mycenae which was soon followed by the excavation of other sites from the same period that made it possible for people to talk about this culture, even before they could read the script.

他找到了迈锡尼城,并且这次的挖掘之后,又引发了一轮对于,同时期其他遗迹的挖掘活动,而这也让人们在破解他们的文字之前,有了探索此文明的可能性

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