It could be a folk tale. It could be a history book.

可以是民间传说，也可以是历史书。

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So, it was a very popular book in the U.S., but it did have this history of being banned in Europe, and it was certainly controversial here.

因此，尽管现在这是一本广受欢迎的书，但它历史上确乎,在欧洲遭遇过禁止，并且在美国也是非常有争议的。

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So this is a book that tries to discuss true American values based on our history.

这本书试图探讨,基于美国历史的真正美国价值观。

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This problem has been brought out, I think brilliantly in a recent book by a man named James Bowman, a book called Honor: a History.

这个问题是由一个叫詹姆斯·鲍曼的人,在他最近一本叫,《荣誉：历史》的书里提出来的。

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This is Angus Trumble, the curator at the British Art Gallery who wrote this wonderful book, A Brief History of the Smile looking at the smile in art.

英国美术馆馆长安格斯,他写了这本奇妙的书，微笑简明史，看艺术中的微笑。

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So, give me two more minutes, I'm going to end, and a few of you, faces, I've heard this before, people that I know; but, I guess one reason why I'm in history--well, because I read a book a long time ago.

所以,再给我两分钟,我就要结束了,你们有些人,面孔,这我见过,有的人我认识,但是,我觉得我之所以搞历史,因为我很久以前读过一本书

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Well, apparently Richard in real life did not refuse to make those changes. And imagine, in a book that then undergoes this publishing history that I have described, this is kind of a symbolic scene.

很明显，现实生活中的理查,并没有拒绝那些修改,想像一下，经历上述出版过程的一本书，这是象征性的场景。

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His first book was a translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, which he completed in 1629; Thucydides, the great historian of the Peloponnesian War, who we mentioned before when we talked about Plato.

他第一本书是对',修昔底斯《伯罗奔尼撒战争》的译著，这本书于1629年完成;,修昔底斯，伯罗奔尼撒战争中伟大的历史学家，这个人在我们之前讨论柏拉图时提到过。

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I want to write a book that said that, you know the greatest patriots in our history, have been those people that said to our government : "Hey, you have to live up to your word.

我想写一本书告诉大家，美国历史上最伟大的爱国者，是那些敢于对政府直言不讳的人,嘿，你可不能食言。

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