When he was a little older, he began to read famous people's biography, like Roosevelt, Napoleon, Edison and so on.

稍大一点，他又一头扎进罗斯福、拿破仑、爱迪生等名人传记中。

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Then he read about a famous French magician named Jean Eugne Robert-Houdin.

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If you look at the syllabus, you'll notice that we read a number of great and famous books, books by Aristotle, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, John Stewart Mill, and others.

如果你有留意教学大纲，就能发现,教学大纲里列出了不少人的著作，包括亚里士多德，约翰·洛克，伊曼努尔·康德，约翰·斯图尔特·穆勒及其他哲学家的著作。

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Now I would like to read to you from the footnote to Howl, Allen Ginsberg's famous poem, that for many people embodied at the time what it meant to be engaged in this new literary project.

现在我再给你们读一段《嚎叫》的脚注，这是艾伦金斯堡的著名诗歌，对于很多当时的人来说,参与这项新文学事业意义深远。

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And you know, that's been all over the cable news channels but they had not read the famous text message yet and I actually had to show it to them on my BlackBerry.

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Those individuals haven't read Estleman's famous Amos Walker series.

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Though Mr. O'Hara's once-popular novels and short stories are no longer widely read, he was famous in 1940 for his well-tuned ear, and the characters in "Pal Joey" sound like they stepped out of a real-life alley after throwing a couple of punches.

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