Well, you know, it goes back to the beginning of the formation of the personal computer industry, which--that sounds like a long time ago.
嗯,你知道,这要追溯到,个人电脑产业的形成初期,听起来相当久远了。
And in that class, we study great works of western philosophy, like going back as far as Plato through Aristotle,
在这门课上,我们学习西方哲学的伟大作品,比如说通过亚里士多德讲到年代久远的柏拉图,
Furthermore doesn't the study of old books often very old books ? risk overlooking the issues facing us today?
此外,研究这些巨著,通常年代久远,不会有忽略我们今日所面临议题的风险吗?
Human rights seems like such a sort of time immemorial concept.
人权听起来就像是一个如此,久远的概念。
What is it about the Greeks between the years that I mentioned to you that deserves the attention of people in the twenty-first century?
是什么使得久远的古希腊,会值得21世纪的人们,去关注和研究呢
Now, you might think that's a long time ago, 1886?
你可能认为这太久远了,1886年吗
He's too long after their death.
他们之间年代相隔久远。
But you shouldn't take the date that I give you, the traditional date, as being firm.
但是我所提供给你的日期历史久远,并不能当做确切的时间加以使用
Some of these books which we think are roughly from a certain date, they will contain narrative snippets or legal materials or oral traditions that may even date back or stretch back further in time, and they were perhaps transmitted orally and then ended up in these written forms.
有些篇章只是被我们粗略地认为出现于那个年代,其中包含的故事片段或律法材料或口头传统,其实也许能够追溯到更久远,所以这些很可能一开始是被口头传播,后来才用文字形式记载的。
For if such holy Song / enwrap our fancy long," then we'll mistakenly convince ourselves that time could actually run backwards and that we've been returned to the Golden Age, the very first age of human history according to classical legend.
如果这神圣的天籁,永远包围我们想象的心怀“,然后我们就会错误的说服我们自己,时间实际上就会倒转,我们就会到达黄金般的国度,依照古典的传说就是人类最久远的历史。
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