Its somewhat ambitious title was "The Book of Life" and it attempted to show how much an observant man might learn by an accurate and systematic examination of all that came in his way.

这本书有点野心勃勃的书名是《生命之书》，它试图表明，一个善于观察的人，通过对他遇到的一切事物进行准确而系统的考察，可以学到多少东西。

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Its somewhat ambitious title was "The Book of Life", and it attempted to show how much an observant man might learn by an accurate and systematic examination of all that came in his way.

《生命之书》这个书名或许有些野心勃勃，这本书试图说明，一个善于观察的人，通过所遇之事进行准确而系统的考察，可以学到多少东西。

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Such a system, however, seems somewhat ambitious.

这样的系统真是有点雄心勃勃。

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All said, Mr Beinart has produced an original and ambitious study, even if the conclusion he derives from history's slippery lessons is somewhat commonplace: that America must continue to engage with the world but accept the limits of its power and concentrate on rebuilding the economy on which its strength has always rested.

ECONOMIST: 20th-century America