It may not have been ladylike to depict a giant spider devouring a hummingbird, but when Merian did it at the turn of the 18th century, surprisingly, nobody objected.

描绘一只巨大蜘蛛吞食蜂鸟的画面，可能不太符合淑女形象，但令人惊讶的是，当梅里安在18世纪之交这样做的时候，没有人对此提出反对。

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Today, most human beings do live in a schooled (indeed, universitied) world, but this was definitely not the world of the 18th century.

今天，大多数人确实生活在一个教育普及（事实上，大学普及）的世界里，但这绝对不是18世纪的人所预想的那个世界。

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Back in the 18th arrondissement, not far from the cobbled streets of Montmartre, France's secular principles seem neater in theory than in practice.

反观巴黎18区，在蒙马特鹅卵石街区不远处，法国世俗原则在理论上似乎比实践中更有效。

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So I would say the tradition goes back to the 18th century not even to the constitution.

我认为这个传统可以回溯到,十九世纪，甚至在宪法出现之前。

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