The origins of the Gypsies, with little written history, were shrouded in mystery.

吉普赛人的起源几乎没有文字记载，一直被谜团包裹着。

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Yet sub-Saharan Africa mostly lacks a written history.

可是，撒哈拉以南的非洲地区很大程度上缺乏文字记载的历史。

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That is the O.E.D. 's greatest value - as a guide to our spoken and written history.

这才是O.E.D .的最大价值——它引导我们了解英语口语和书面语的历史。

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And,for people that have no written history, language can be one of the ways that that history can be gotten at just by looking carefully at the different layers in the language."

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Up to this point in literary history, only verse written for the theater had been written in unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, in blank verse.

文学发展到那时候，只有为戏剧写的诗,才会用不押韵的抑扬格五音步，即无韵诗。

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Well, look at this footnote: And the history of words after a poem is written may contribute meanings which if relevant to the original pattern should not be ruled out by a scruple about intention.

那么我们就来看一下这条脚注：,在诗产生后，语言的意思也就跟着产生了,这种意思如果和原始的形式不同,就不该有对作者意图的顾虑。

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The power of written history worried Veronica Wedgwood.

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He knew more about the doings of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the ultra-secret wartime outfit devoted to bolstering resistance in Europe, than any man alive, for he had written its history.

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Allan Meltzer, a professor of political economy at Carnegie Mellon University who has written a history of the Federal Reserve, says it doesn't necessarily sully Bernanke's reputation to repeat the same mantra every time he visits the Hill.

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