We all believe we live in an exceptional time, perhaps even a critical moment in the history of the species.

我们都喜欢相信我们生活在一个特殊的时间，甚至也许是人类有史以来最为关键的时刻。

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History is by its nature a critical, sceptical discipline.

历史学就其本质而言是一门批判与怀疑的学科。

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History is a critical academic discipline whose aims include precisely the interrogation of memory and the myths it generates.

历史恰恰是一门批判性的学术学科，其目的正包括对于其从中发轫的记忆作精确的问讯。

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Secretary Clinton says Afghanistan is at a critical moment in its history on the eve of the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai's second term.

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But it began a Critical Study of the poems for the first time and Critical Methods were applied to history for the first time ever, really, in the early nineteenth century and thereafter.

这开启了诗歌批判研究的先河,十九世纪初期,人们首次将批判理论应用于,历史文献的研究中

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He opens with an excellent thumbnail life of Alfred Nobel himself and a briskly critical history of the sometimes wayward administration of the prize.

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If, however, we continue down the present road of permitting Moscow to use Western financial assistance, including debt relief, as a kind of club to bludgeon independent, democratic-minded republics into submitting to the discredited policies of a new Moscow center we will have misjudged, at a critical juncture in history, the merits of decentralization and the abiding dangers of recentralization.

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Afghanistan is in a critical stage of its history struggling to build strong institutions and taking on the responsibilities needed to build a secure nation.

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