A review of the past year in disaster history suggests that modern Americans are particularly bad at protecting themselves from guaranteed threats.

回顾过去一年的灾难历史，我们发现现代美国人在保护自己免受威胁方面做得尤其糟糕。

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Bill Bryson takes readers on a very funny and educational trip through the history of modern science from its unexpected successes to its great failures and everything in between.

比尔·布赖森带领读者进行了一场有趣而有教育意义的旅行，贯穿现代科学史，从意外的成功到巨大的失败，以及其间的一切。

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Hawking was one of the most respected scientists in the modern history of physics.

霍金是现代物理学史上最受尊敬的科学家之一。

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One music critic wrote that modern music history had just been made.

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So, normally at this point, we do actually start class with a little bit of history from alchemy to modern chemistry, but I decided to skip that this year.

通常在这个时候,我们要从一些从炼金术,到现代化学的历史出发正式开始我们的课程。

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We lost. Loss always, I think, almost always, especially in modern history, has led to longer, deeper, troubled memories.

我们输了,失败一直是,在我看来,几乎一直是,特别是在近代历史上,造成南方人长久深刻而苦痛的记忆的根源

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The title was held by the late historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, and the 18th Century poet Thomas Gray, who was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge.

BBC: Open University Milton Keynes professor given royal award

This phenomenon has produced a generation of Arabs that knows little about the details and texture of their own history, especially the modern history of the republics, monarchies, and principalities in which they live today.

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It's the interior that reflects the couple's contrasting interests in their home's history and modern art.

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