As a chronicler of natural history today, Frans Lanting is a singular extraordinary talent.

作为当下的一名自然历史记录者，Frans Lanting是一个独一无二的非凡的天才。

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In 1104 another chronicler, Simeon of Durham, records how Cuthbert’s coffin was opened in preparation for formal reinterment in a new church, the precursor of Durham cathedral.

在1104年，另外一位年代史编撰者——达拉谟的西米恩——记录了为在一个新教堂中重新将卡斯波特埋葬而如何将他的棺材打开的过程。

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"Bow and knife never leave their hands," wrote a Song dynasty chronicler; or mist nets, a modern chronicler might add.

宋朝的一位史官写道他们“弓箭刀具从不离手”，现代的记录者或许会加上薄网。

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How else could he have become such a chronicler whose greatest work is still studied as the precursor of the modern psychological novel?

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Despite the toylike feel of his figures, he is too knowing to be a primitive, and for all his seemingly topical references mocking scenes, for example, of military juntas he is too dreamy to be a chronicler and too gentle for a parodist.

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The world lost a gifted chronicler who wrote with great authority and affection about the Middle East and beyond.

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