For reading, if you are really curious about some of this early history, I can recommend this book. It is "Mendeleev's Dream."

关于阅读，如果你们真的对,早期的历史很感兴趣的话，我向你们推荐这本书，叫做门捷列夫的梦想“

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

There's a few exceptions, but most things you can really grind on and certainly that was kind of the history of Microsoft in the early days.

有一些例外，但是大多数都是耗时长久,早期微软也是如此。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

This is a course that introduces you to the New Testament literature, but also the history of other material from the very first one hundred years or so of early Christianity.

本课不仅介绍,新约文学，还会介绍其他文献的历史,可以追溯到基督教早期100年左右的时期。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

In a little scene from the early English history that Milton had selected from his reading, you have an image of silencing, of a horrifying and unredeemable speechlessness that is so closely connected to virginity.

早期英国文学中的一个小场景,那是弥尔顿从他的阅读中选出的，你们，对于可怕的不可挽回的哑口无言有种寂静感,这与童贞紧密相连。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But it began a Critical Study of the poems for the first time and Critical Methods were applied to history for the first time ever, really, in the early nineteenth century and thereafter.

这开启了诗歌批判研究的先河,十九世纪初期,人们首次将批判理论应用于,历史文献的研究中

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I think the sort of skepticism I mean arises from what one might call and what often is called modernity not to be confused with Modernism, an early twentieth-century phenomenon, but the history of modern thought as it usually derives from the generation of Descartes, Shakespeare, and Cervantes.

我所说的怀疑主义,产生于我们通常说的现代性,不要与20世纪早期的，现代主义搞混了，现代性是现代思想的历史,始于笛卡尔，莎士比亚和塞万提斯一代。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

These conditions permitted a development of institutions and habits needed for freedom, even as they also made Europe vulnerable to conquests and to extinction, and Europe was almost extinguished practically before there was a Europe; very early in its history.

这些恰恰是自由的形成和发展,需要的的制度和特征,尽管这也使欧洲,在外敌入侵时变的不堪一击,实际上,在它早期的历史中,欧洲在尚未形成前就差点消失

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Hesiod, whom I have not mentioned to you before, a poet who we think to have lived around 700 B.C., very early in the history of the polis, wrote one of his poems called, Works and Days.

赫西奥德,我之前跟你们提到过的,是一个生活在公元七百年左右的诗人,那还是在城邦历史的初期,创作了一首名为《工作与时日》的诗歌

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