There had been a half century that had passed since any great modern epic or romance epic had even been produced.

在过去的半个世纪中,没有任何伟大的现代史诗或浪漫史诗出现。

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As you know, Stephen Schwarzman is a graduate of Yale College and he's one of the great stories of our century.

你们知道,史蒂芬·施瓦茨曼是耶鲁大学的毕业生,同时也是这个时代的一个传奇

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And where we where at the start of the 20th Century in the late 1890's is that we were at a place where there was great confidence in our understanding of the universe, and our understanding of how all matter worked.

0世纪开始讲起,在19世纪的九十年代,人们对于自己,对自然的理解,对自然所有物质,如何工作的理解十分自信。

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Over the long run, Great Britain remains a constitutional monarchy even in the nineteenth century, when Victoria had great prestige, she did not have great power.

长久以来,英国保持着君主立宪制,即使到了十九世纪,当维多利亚女王获得无上荣耀的时候,她并没有获得太多权利

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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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We didn't know a great deal about certain authors until this period of the flourishing of philology in the very late nineteenth and early twentieth century took hold and pretty much created for us the archive that we now use today in a variety of ways.

有些作家的作品,直到19世纪末20世纪初的,语言学繁荣期才为人所知,这个时期也孕育了,我们今天用来研究的文本档案。

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The Netherlands also resisted absolutism, and the Dutch Republic remained the Dutch Republic; although, for reasons that we'll see later, the Dutch Republic ceases to be a great power in the 18th century.

荷兰抵制绝对统治的政体,保留了共合制,然而,后面我们将说到,荷兰共和国在十八世纪没落了

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