Any era of great change, great ferment, usually causes reform, anxiety, people who get worried, want to change things.

任何一个大变革的时代,大的动乱,通常会导致改革和焦虑,人们变得担忧,想要改变局面

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It would be quickly ground into flour and used before it even has time to ferment, to quickly offer something to the deity again, to procure favor for the rest of the crop.

很快弄成面粉，还来不及发酵,只为了敬献给神,为了博得神的喜爱，保佑这些庄稼。

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There is still a tremendous amount of intellectual ferment and excitement in the capitals of Russia.

当时的知识分子还是相当活跃,特别是在俄国大城市中。

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The fourth is war, and we got peace movements in American history and anti-war fervor and ferment, of all kinds, for a very long time.

第四点是战争,我们美国历史上的和平运动,酝酿的反战情绪,诸此种种,由来已久了

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This was a time when Hopkins led all American universities in the importing of important European scholars, and it was a place of remarkable intellectual ferment.

当时霍普金斯先于美国的其他大学,邀请重要的欧洲学者来讲学，那里也是有影响的思想动乱的源地。

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