What complicates the issue is the burden of history.

使问题复杂化是历史的重负。

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Since the dawn of human history, human beings have been asking questions like "What is the real meaning of life".

从人类历史的开端开始，人类就一直在问“生命的真正意义是什么”这样的问题。

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"Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here," wrote the Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle.

维多利亚时代的圣人托马斯·卡莱尔写道：“通史，即人类在这个世界上取得的成就的历史，本质上就是在此努力过的伟人的历史。”

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Jagland firmly disagrees. "If you look at the history of the Nobel Peace Prize, we have on many occasions tried to enhance what many personalities is trying to do,"

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What I want to stress now is that Yeats sees passion at work in the same way in history.

我现在要强调的是,叶芝在工作中感到了激情,就如他在历史中感受到的一样。

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That is to say, what we're taking up this week, is as much really the history of criticism as literary theory.

也就是说，我们这周要讲的，与其说是文学理论，不如说是文学评论的历史。

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You know, Ed, that -- what the history is here.

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"I am not a doctor, nor am I a medical historian, but these injuries are very difficult to recover from after one surgery, and I'm not sure what the history is of recovery from a second more or less identical surgery, " general manager Sandy Alderson said on a conference call.

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History is contingent, the authors apologise, but history is what they hope to explain.

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