Few collections could claim to have never been disturbed, yet the innumerable volumes that surrounded him had remained inviolate for seven centuries.

很少有书籍可以宣称，没有被翻阅过，但是那无数的书籍环绕着他，至少有七个世纪被被动过。

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Yet, people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago. Nature has apparently been experimenting in this field for million of years.

人们只是在两个世纪前一点才开始了解电的使用原理，自然界却显然在这方面经历 过了数百万年。

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Alcoholism has been around for centuries, yet no one has discovered an easy way to prevent it.

酗酒这个问题已经存在几百年了，但是至今为止，人们还未找到一种能够轻松阻止它的方式。

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Reich was admitted to the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association in 1920, while he was still a graduate student, and already a radical idea was percolating in his head: that sexuality, fundamental to our being, and yet a source of shame for centuries, had the power to heal much of what ailed us, if only we would let it.

NEWYORKER: Novelty Acts

And yet, though these changes were remarkable for their era, it is odd that the early republic is so admired two centuries later.

ECONOMIST: The revision thing