Since the dawn of human history, human beings have been asking questions like "What is the real meaning of life".
从人类历史的开端开始，人类就一直在问“生命的真正意义是什么”这样的问题。
"Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here," wrote the Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle.
维多利亚时代的圣人托马斯·卡莱尔写道：“通史，即人类在这个世界上取得的成就的历史，本质上就是在此努力过的伟人的历史。”
The good news is that there is growing agreement on what is wrong with the teaching of history and what needs to be done to fix it.
好消息是，对于历史教学存在的问题，以及需要采取什么措施来解决这个问题，人们的意见越来越一致。
What seems to be happening now is a repetition of a familiar process in the country's history, the "Japanization" of an adopted foreign practice.
现在正在发生的似乎是该国历史上一个熟悉过程的重复，即采用的外国做法的“日本化”。
Until recently, many anthropologists assumed that the environment of what is now the southwestern United States shaped the social history and culture of the region's indigenous peoples.
直到最近，许多人类学家还认为现在美国西南部的环境塑造了该地区土著民族的社会历史和文化。
Here is a living history, which looks beyond what we already know about exploration: a larger history in which we come to recognise the contribution of everyone involved.
这是一段活生生的历史，它超越了我们已知的探索：一段更大的历史，在这段历史中，我们开始认识到每个参与者的贡献。
What more proof is required that history moves in a straight line than the eclipse of every U.S. rival?
这便更充分地证实了他们的信念，美国的历史是沿着直线前进的。任何对手在他的前面，只能变得暗淡无光。
This seems to be the best reference on which to build a textbook, since it is a standard on the subject and covers what most U.S. history students study in high school and college.
编写一本教科书，这似乎是最好的参考书，因为它是这个主题的标准，而且覆盖了高中生和大学生所学的大多美国历史课。
What is perhaps most surprising about the Japan earthquake is how misleading history can be.
日本地震最令人感到惊讶的可能是其如何误导历史。
We have an obligation to call this what it is - the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.
我们有责任指出真相以正视听。这种自欺欺人的、貌似有理的绥靖政策已经一再被历史证明其荒谬之处。
In this way, a history of exactly what was executed throughout the history of that particular test case is maintained.
这样的话，特定测试用例的被执行的历史就被精确的保存了下来。
The worry in Canada and elsewhere is that what goes up might come down, and history amply illustrates the economic harm done when housing prices plunge.
现在让加拿大和其它国家担心的是，上涨的房价可能会回落，而无数历史经验足以表明，房价暴跌会给经济带来严重危害。
The world at the start of the 21st Century is also the result of what we call the Great Acceleration - the most rapid transformation of the human relationship with the natural world in history.
世界开始21世纪也是我们称为‘大加速’的结果，这是历史上最快的一次人类与自然关系的转变。
China did not seek expansion in history, nor does it have a hegemony culture. What we have is the desire to develop ourselves and build a friendly neighbourhood.
中国没有扩张的历史，也没有称霸的文化，有的只是建设国家的需求和睦邻友好的信念。
Ritholtz says, “It’s like what Hegel supposedly said: The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.”
里萨兹说，“这一现象正印证了黑格尔的观点：我们唯一能从历史中学到的就是我们对历史一无所知。”
The operation saved his life, but what happened to him is everyone's nightmare: the patient with no family history of heart disease, whose first symptom is a massive heart attack.
手术挽救了他的生命。 发生在他身上的事对任何人来说都是噩梦：一个没有心脏病家族病史的人，首次出现症状就是一次致命的心脏病发作。
Rather, they say, the source might have been massive volcanoes, like the ones that blew in the Deccan Traps in what is now India at just the right point in history.
相反地，他们说，烟雾的来源可能是大型火山喷发，比如那些在印度南部高原德干地区的火山爆发，它们的爆发在历史上时间点也刚刚好。
This sounds like a quirky Trivial Pursuit answer — what is the deadliest garment in history?
这听起来像一道智力题的离奇答案——历史上最致命的穿戴物是什么？
Often what sets one company apart from the next is the entrepreneur at its helm--his or her personality, history and philosophy shape the company's corporate culture and, ultimately, its image.
通常来看，使得一家企业与另一家相区别开来的是作为舵手的企业家——他或她的个性、履历以及哲学塑造着这家公司的企业文化，并从根本上决定其形象。
And, for many Americans, the holiday weekend is also a time to think about history and reflect on what it means to be an American.
对许多美国人来说，这个假日也是他们回顾历史，反省作为一个美国人意义何在的时候。
Tourists and residents learn about the history of the salmon and what is being done to help them survive.
游客和居民了解了鲑鱼的来历并学习如何帮助它们幸免于难。
As far as the third question is concerned-what can it learn from other recalls-history offers little comfort.
谈到第三个问题——我们究竟能从召回事件中学到什么——历史提供的答案不能令人满意。
What struck me more than anything is that for the first time possibly in history, people aren't being given the same opportunities that my parents and grandparents had.
我认为最受打击的是，如今是有史以来第一次，人们没能像我的父辈祖辈那样享受同等机遇的时候。
What we're hoping is to demonstrate to people how the abbey has scarcely stood still in its long history.
我们希望向人民证明，这座教堂在历史长河中几乎是静止不动的。
What we're hoping is to demonstrate to people how the abbey has scarcely stood still in its long history.
我们希望向人民证明，这座教堂在历史长河中几乎是静止不动的。
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