The opening paragraph invokes a vision of England in the early Middle Ages.

头一段的引言描绘出中世纪前期的英格兰景象。

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Having babies in early middle age was an exhausting business, as we soon found.

随后我们便发现，在中年早期生孩一件让人精疲力尽的差事。

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The greatest historian of the early Middle Ages was an English monk named Bede.

中世纪早期最著名的历史学家是英国僧侣比德。

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As early as the tenth century, the Chinese traded their ceramics throughout the Middle East and southeast Asia.

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In the Middle Ages and to some extent in the Early Modern period, we live in a theocentric world.

在中世纪甚至是现在早期，我们生活在以上帝为中心的世界里。

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Also, people who come in early maybe should try to sit in the middle part of the classroom, so the latecomers can come in without too much disruption.

还有,来得早的人最好尽量,坐在教室中间的座位,这样就不必站起来给迟到的人让路

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The imperial city has been a prominent tourist destination since the early Middle Ages, with striking ruins, catacombs and holy sites.

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Mr Gove said teachers were encouraged to teach the early Middle Ages "by studying the depiction of King John as a cowardly lion in Disney's Robin Hood".

BBC: Gove criticises 'Mr Men' history teaching

Debbie and her husband, Pete (Paul Rudd), a Los Angeles couple with two daughters, are hitting early middle age, and Apatow has arranged their discontents (with themselves, with each other, with their parents) into a generous and vibrant series of confrontations and fights, all garnished with wisecracks of startling pungency.

NEWYORKER: Dead Reckoning