The country was in a ferment.

那个国家正处于动乱之中。

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As she was prepared for her maiden voyage on August 10, 1628, Stockholm was in a ferment.

1628年8月10日，她准备处女航的日子，整个斯德哥尔摩陷入了激动之中。

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The whole country has been in a state of political ferment for some months.

整个国家几个月来一直处在政治骚动的状态中。

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There is still a tremendous amount of intellectual ferment and excitement in the capitals of Russia.

当时的知识分子还是相当活跃,特别是在俄国大城市中。

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This was a time when Hopkins led all American universities in the importing of important European scholars, and it was a place of remarkable intellectual ferment.

当时霍普金斯先于美国的其他大学,邀请重要的欧洲学者来讲学，那里也是有影响的思想动乱的源地。

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The fourth is war, and we got peace movements in American history and anti-war fervor and ferment, of all kinds, for a very long time.

第四点是战争,我们美国历史上的和平运动,酝酿的反战情绪,诸此种种,由来已久了

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Against a backdrop of spiritual ferment in the 17th century, many followed Sabbatai Zevi, a Jewish scholar, who proclaimed himself Messiah and eventually embraced a form of Islam.

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Cobalt engineers also figured out a way to ferment the wood starch into biobutanol in a more concentrated fashion.

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Yet this is a period of ferment, of a generational shift in China.

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