But Eudora Welty was once asked why Southerners can be such great writers, or such good storytellers and she was a wonderful storyteller.

但有一次她被问到,为什么南方总是出伟大的作家,或者是杰出的小说家,她自己就是个很出色的小说家

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Or as Walker Percy, the great Southern writer, was once asked he was asked, in effect, "Why do Southerners have such long memories?

或者正如沃克·泊西,这个伟大的南方作家,曾被问到,他被问到,老实说,"为什么南方人的记忆如此刻骨铭心

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Once the poleis are in place, they will spend a great deal of time fighting each other.

一旦城邦在某地建立,他们就会花上很长一段时间相互争斗

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As one of the great readers of Plato : of the last century once said, "Only the surface of things " reveals the essence of things."

如同上个世纪一位重要的柏拉图读者,曾说到，“仅有事物的表面,尽展其精华“

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This monumental novel about 20 hours in the life of an average man can be read and appreciated like any other great novel once its framework and form are visualized, just as we can enjoy Hamlet without solving all the problems which agitate the critics and scholars."

这部不朽的小说是关于一个,平常人生命中的二十个小时,在它的框架和形式显现出来的时候,它就能像其他伟大小说一样被阅读和欣赏，就像我们欣赏《哈姆雷特》那样,不用解决那些激发批评家和学者讨论的问题“

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And so although I'll be saying a great deal about the Phaedo once we turn to it, I want to just take a minute or two and say a couple of introductory remarks.

尽管在讲到斐多篇时,我会向你们详尽介绍其中的内容,但现在,我还是想先花一两分钟的时间,做一个简短的引言

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As that great philosopher Karl Marx once asked, "? "Who will educate the educators?"

如同伟大的哲学家马克斯曾提问，“谁来教育教育者“

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And against that, we could have the pessimists who say, "The negative side especially once we throw in the negative interaction effects, the negative side is so great that " that it would be better never to have been born at all."

而与此相反，可能有悲观主义者说，“消极的方面,特别是我们一旦把负面相互影响考虑进去，消极的方面就会变得,让我们觉得还是压根别出生的好“

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