Scientific work is differentiated from art by its necessary connection with the idea of progress.

科学工作不同于艺术在于它与进步的概念有必然联系。

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The idea of progress forms the backdrop to a society.

关于进步的观念形成了一个社会的大背景。

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In the rich world the idea of progress has become impoverished.

在一个富裕的世界，关于进步的观念则变得贫困。

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But think with me just for one second about the idea of progress.

但是请跟我思考一下,进步的观念

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The idea that America stood for some kind of progress, that America meant a prosperous future was just common coin.

那种美国代表了发展进步,代表了繁荣未来的想法是双方共有的

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What the Market Revolution was, in so many ways, was an engine, a tremendous Charles Sellers has written a famous book on this it was a tremendous engine for what became arguably the most prevalent idea of the entire nineteenth century in America, and that's the notion of progress.

在很大层面上,市场革命,就是一个巨大的发动机,查尔斯·塞勒斯,曾经为此写过一部书,市场这个巨大的发动机,它带来了十九世纪最流行且有争议的看法,即,对进步的观念

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The idea of progress is central to why we share common ground.

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For this reason, among others, Jaki says neither the ancient Greeks nor Romans produced modern science, which depends greatly on the idea of progress.

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"It reversed the Idea of Progress, " writes the literary historian Paul Fussell in "The Great War and Modern Memory, " the single best account of the war's cultural impact.

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