罗马世界具有一种凝聚力，这种凝聚力既不适用于希腊，也不适用于其他古今文明。

There is a quality of cohesiveness about the Roman world that applied neither to Greece nor perhaps to any other civilization, ancient or modern.

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她是古今最伟大的女英雄。

She is as great a heroine as ever lived.

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只要其意清晰，一条谚语可以古今共用。

As long as its meaning is clear, a saying can be both historic and current.

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But so when I say "family"-- we try to avoid even talking about "the Roman family," because it means something so different to them than what it means to us.

所以我说家庭时-,我们尽量不用来指“罗马家庭“,因为这个词古今意思截然不同。

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So I went back to the great creator raising his plastic arm and suggested that, well, maybe after all there might be some good way of complicating the meaning of Akenside by suggesting that the modern, anachronistic meaning of "plastic" would be relevant to the sense of the poem.

所以我回想了一下,当这位伟大的创造家抬起他的塑料手臂，说，也许总有办法,能让Akenside的意思更复杂,有一个很好的例子就是,“plastic“一词古今意思的差别“,和诗歌的意境有关。

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