youdao

读书有很多好处，但不幸的是，现在这个时代没多少人把时间花在读书上了。

There are many benefits of reading books. Unfortunately, in this day and age, not a lot of people take the time to read them anymore.

youdao

这是马克思的不幸，他为那个时代而写的小册子被(他的支持者们)当作是永久的真理或被(他的批评者们)当作一种有企图的威胁恐吓。

It has been Marx's misfortune that what he wrote as a tract for The Times has been taken (by his supporters) as eternal truth or (by his critics) as an attempt thereat.

youdao

It's dark. The other, dark, in the sense of gloomy, not good, bad; this is a hard time, a poor time, a wretched time, a miserable time.

因此称之为黑暗,另一个理由是,黑暗从悲观的角度来说就是不好的,坏的,这是一个艰难的时代,一个穷苦的时代,一个不幸的时代,一个悲惨的时代

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选