我花了大约六个月时间去读托马斯·曼的《魔山》，大多数时候安·兰德的《阿特拉斯耸耸肩》都让我感到非常无聊。
Thomas Mann's difficult The Magic Mountain took me about six months to read; Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged made me very bored most of the time.
他的母亲是农民的女儿。 托马斯后来在一首题为《蕨山》（1964）的名诗中曾写到他在外祖父的农场时的欢快景象。
His mother was a farmer’s daughter; Thomas later celebrated the joy he felt at his maternal grandparents’ farm in a famous poem entitled “Fern Hill” (1946).
17世纪托马斯.胡克和艾萨克.牛顿所在的英国或多或少的自由学术氛围（参见文章）与16世纪伊斯坦布尔拆除的达给尤丁哈山的“亵渎”天文台的对比；
the more-or-less free inquiry of Thomas Hooke and Isaac Newton in 17th-century England (see article) versus the demolition of Takiyuddin's “blasphemous” observatory in 16th-century Istanbul;
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