As a biographer of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, Mr. Isaacson knows how to explicate and celebrate genius: revered, long-dead genius.

作为爱因斯坦传与本杰明·富兰克林传的作者，艾萨克森懂得如何著述，颂扬那些备受崇敬，与世长辞的天才们。

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Lining the main hall were bronze busts of some of the most revered and accomplished Jedi Masters, both living and dead.

大厅内侧矗立有许多青铜制的雕像——为那些最值得尊敬的，或最博学的绝地大师而造。他们中，有的已经故去，有的依然在世。

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The situation in Japan was much the same: a country with a disciplined, homogenous population, no allies, sealed borders, its cities half burnt, more than three million dead, a million wounded, missing, or captured, its revered emperor having capitulated, and nearly half a million troops in occupation.

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