同时，当时也是艺术（伦布兰特，弗米尔）和文学（拉辛、莫里哀、米尔顿、帕斯卡）的多产期，而不幸的是，哲学（霍布斯、洛克）并不发达。

It was a fertile time for art (Rembrandt, Vermeer) and literature (Racine, Moliere, Milton, Pascal) and unfortunately, bad philosophy (Hobbes, Locke).

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在夏洛克·福尔摩斯成为一种现象之前，读者只是简单地“接受他们喜爱的小说的走向，继续看”，英国广播公司的作家詹妮弗•凯辛•阿姆斯特朗说。

Before Sherlock Holmes became a sensation, readers simply "accepted what went on in their favorite books, then moved on", says BBC writer Jennifer Keishin Armstrong.

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