It's been believed for centuries that great writers, composers, and scientists are essentially quite different from ordinary people.

几个世纪以来人们都认为伟大的作家、作曲家和科学家本质上与常人大不相同。

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Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.

美德是优秀的表现，是超越一般的伟大和美好，它远远高于庸俗和平庸。

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Your great personality is revealed in ordinary tasks and your sincere love and efforts are contained in the blooming flowers.

平凡的事业，却展示了您伟大的人格；盛开的鲜花，也凝聚了您挚爱的心血。

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Now that the currency exists, for the moment alongside national ones, Mr Solbes has, among other things, to promote its use by ordinary Europeans and by businesses great and small: not easy, when the currency has made so feeble a start.

ECONOMIST: Pedro Solbes, commissioner for the euro

And I remember at that time understanding that history was being made because ordinary people were standing up and doing extraordinary things with great courage and a great -- against great odds.

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Though this shock therapy brought great hardship for ordinary Peruvians, it ended rampant hyperinflation and paved the way for sustained economic growth in the second half of the 1990s.

BBC: Alberto Fujimori in file photo from 1999