The historian of manners and ideas has no less austere a mission than the historian of events.

研究习俗和思想的历史学家的任务的严肃性决不在研究大事的历史学家之下。

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I found her a rather austere, distant, somewhat cold person.

我发觉她是一个相当严厉、难以亲近、有些冷漠的人。

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My father was a distant, austere man.

我父亲是个难以接近的严肃的人。

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The group's patriarch, Antonio Ermirio de Moraes, is well known in Brazil as a man of austere habits and a social conscience.

ECONOMIST: Votorantim

Since such bases will, by design, be relatively austere, a premium will be placed on those platforms that can utilize less-developed infrastructures and facilities.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Redeploying our forces to win World War IV

Instead, a combination of multiple, austere silos among which a transportable (as opposed to fully mobile) missile could be moved and an ability to defend the loaded silos preferentially offers a more militarily and cost-effective approach.

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