如今女人有雄心是可以接受的。但在那时候不行。

Nowadays it's acceptable for women to be ambitious. But it wasn't then.

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但在那时，像他们这样的人有很多。

But there were lots of people like them back then.

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但在那时，一些较少为人注意的特征也损害了其改革者形象。

But by then, less appealing traits had trumped his reformist leanings.

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But then who would understand better than John Milton, Sr. the importance or the value of a long-term investment strategy?

但在那时谁又比弥尔顿先生更懂得,长远投资的重要性呢？

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But at the time, they didn't have a well-formed name for it, they were just saying OK, there's this fourth quantum number, there's this intrinsic property in the electron.

但在那时，人们没有给它取名，他们只是说ｏｋ，这是第四个量子数，这是电子的本征性质，　

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But he's really in the middle of his literary career at that point.

但他那时确实是在,他文学事业的中期。

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