Then from these beginnings, engineers transformed life in the twentieth century: a lot of things started in the twentieth century and became common place.

从此开始,工程师们改变了二十世纪的生活,有很多东西在二十世纪发明并得到普及

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One of the great short stories of the last century begins with a sentence by Franz Kafka: "As Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."

上世纪最伟大的短篇小说之一,弗朗茨·卡夫卡所写的名篇是这样开头的,"一天早晨,格里高尔·萨姆沙,从不安的睡梦中醒来,发现自己躺在床上,变成了一只巨大的甲虫"

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