I like your story of Charles Babbage, who in the 1820s basically invented the concept of computer a century before anyone, including him, could make one.

你书中关于查尔斯·巴贝奇(Charles Babbage)的故事我很喜欢，他在十九世纪二十年代就发明了计算机概念，而真正的计算机却是在一个世纪之后出现的。

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From the seventeenth-century empire of Sweden, the story of a galleon that sank at the start of her maiden voyage in 1628 must be one of the strangest tales of the sea.

1628年，一艘大帆船在处女航时就沉没了，这个从容不迫7世纪瑞典帝国流传至今的故事无疑是航海史上最离奇的事件之一。

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About the origin of Valentine's Day, one popular story goes like this: Soldiers were forbidden to marry in third-century Rome, but Valentine, a Roman priest, hosted weddings for them.

关于情人节的起源，一个流行的说法是这样的：三世纪的罗马禁止士兵结婚，而罗马的一位牧师瓦伦丁却为士兵们主持婚礼。

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The rise of local Chinese companies in one industry after another will be the story of the 21st century.

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Both community and commerce are encouraged to play their part in helping tell the story of one of the great achievements of the twentieth century.

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Realists may well retort that the true story of 20th-century war-crimes trials was one of failure and compromise.

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