Modern linguistics emerged as a distinct field in the nineteenth century.

现代语言学在19世纪作为一个独立的领域出现。

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We need to foster an awareness of film sound as well as film space so as to truly appreciate an art form that sprang to life during the twentieth century — the modern film.

我们需要培养对电影声音和电影空间的认识，以便能真正欣赏一种在二十世纪蓬勃发展起来的艺术形式——现代电影。

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Modern dance evolved in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century, and in most cases, audiences were very receptive to this radical new type of performing art.

现代舞是在19世纪末20世纪初发展起来的，在大多数情况下，观众对这种全新的表演艺术接受度很高。

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Some other experts say that the ancestor of the modern guitar was brought to Spain from Persia sometime in the twelfth century.

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The text into which any early modern seventeenth-century writer would jot his or her thoughts into, his reading notes, was always called a commonplace book.

他的阅读笔记,那是许多早期的十七世纪现代作家都会深深思考的笔记，它常常被称为一本普通的书。

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Indeed, arguably a modern military power, at least in the seventeenth and early eighteenth-century sense, and he injects European culture into Russia.

至少在十七世纪和十八世纪早期,它可以算是一个现代化的军事大国,同时 他将欧洲文化注入俄国

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Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century will travel to The Art Institute of Chicago (July 24 to Oct. 3), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Oct. 30 to Jan. 30, 2011) and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (Feb. 19, 2011 to May 15, 2011).

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Fans of the mid century modern boom here will find the Uptown Design District a draw, with architectural revivals and designer shops inspired by the mid century within walking distance.

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So just like the European conquistadors of the 16th Century their modern counterparts continue to ravage South America's past and rob us of the fascinating stories behind it.

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