Biographically the letters take the reader through Berlin’s professional ascent from clever young don to Oxford professor, public educator and transatlantic academic star.

如自传一般，这些信件引导读者见证了伯林从一名聪颖的年轻教师成长为牛津教授、公共教育家和跨大西洋学术明星的职业上升历程；

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As earth attains a particular vibration and energy flow in each increasing global initiation mastered in her ascent, the next level of star gate is passed through.

当其提升过程中所逐渐掌握的每一个全球启蒙中，地球都达到了某特定振动与能量流之时，下一水准的恒星门就被通过。

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His duties at the White House, on Henry Kissinger's National Security Council and for Nixon, had been carried out while still under military orders and earned him a dizzy ascent, from colonel to four-star general in four years.

ECONOMIST: Alexander Haig