A newly released history of 20th Century Russia, written by a team of 45 scholars and edited by historian Andrei Zubov, includes a statement that much of the country's recent past is painfully difficult to study, which is why many refuse to do so.

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Furthermore it would seem that the study of the great books or great thinkers of the past can easily degenerate into a kind of antiquarianism into a sort of pedantry.

更甚之,研究这些巨著或,过往的伟大思想家,更可能轻易地降格为古物癖,或是卖弄学问。

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So a good bit of what we know about diet and health now comes from studies like The Nurses' Health Study, and in the past, from studies like The Framingham Study and The Seven Country Study.

我们现在知道的关于饮食与健康的知识,相当大一部分来自于像,护士健康研究这样的调查,而在过去则是来自像弗明汉研究和,七国研究这样的项目

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