因为我们不可能直接了解过去，只有通过解释一些史料来构造历史，所以探索历史更多是一件创造性的事业而不是客观的追寻。

Because we can never know the past directly but must construct it by interpreting evidence, exploring history is more of a creative enterprise than it is an objective pursuit.

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根据一项新研究，沿地壳构造板块边缘的地震带远比缺乏活动的地带更可能产生伟大的远古文明，研究者称这种联系说明通常被视为破坏性的地质能量，比如地震，在人类历史中或许也起过建设性作用。

Researchers say the relationship suggests that forces typically viewed as destructive--such as earthquakes--might have also played a constructive role in human history.

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有很多方法…在英语系不一定还是，历史批判法，但是专业学者有不同的主流方法，用来构造他们的学科。

There are methods, and it's not necessarily the historical method in English departments anymore, but there are different dominant methods that academics use to construct their disciplines.

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