But he wrote one of the most brilliant critiques of change, and what it can mean, any American ever wrote.

但他写了一部非常精彩的关于变革的评论,这是美国人所著同类作品中最出色的一部

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

We don't know how the change came about or if--some people question if they ever really did have kings, but the picture I want you to have is that's not the tradition.

我们不知道这个变化是怎么发生的,如果...有人质疑如果他们真的有过国王,不过这里我想告诉你们的是,他们没有这样的传统

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The classical hoplite formation then was not the long lived military institution of scholarly tradition, but merely one phase in a history of almost four centuries of slow change towards ever denser and more cohesive heavy infantry formations."

这种方阵的形成,并不是经过长期传承的传统军事制度,只是步兵阵型演变的一个阶段,战阵逐渐向更加紧密坚固的步兵阵型转化,而这个变化持续了约有四个世纪"

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