在借助望远镜观察奇妙壮观的土星时，17世纪的天文学家乔凡尼·多美尼科·卡西尼知道他找到了一项可以为之付出毕生努力的伟大事业。

When the 17th century astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini stared through a telescope at mighty Saturn, he knew he had found his life's great work.

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尽管如此，如果你必须在历史上选出十年来生存，那么21世纪的前十年是毫无争议的不二之选。

Nonetheless, if you had to choose a decade in history in which to be alive, the first of the 21st century would undoubtedly be it.

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即使在公元前四世纪，柏拉图已经在他的寓言故事盖吉斯之戒中阐述了匿名与道德的话题。

Even in the fourth century B.C., Plato touched upon the subject of anonymity and morality in his parable of the ring of Gyges.

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They are steeped in the entire literary tradition of the underworld journey that stretches from The Odyssey of Homer up through Virgil's Aeneid, and of course up through all of the Renaissance romance epics.

它们被浸泡在整套文学传统中,穿越了从荷马的《奥德赛》上升到,维吉尔的《埃涅阿斯纪》的地下之旅，当然它也经历了所有文艺复兴时期的浪漫史诗。

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