Menand notes, "the great books are read because they have been read"—they form a sort of social glue.

梅南德指出，“伟大的作品被人阅读，是因为已经被读过”——它们形成了一种社会凝聚力。

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The Great Books, so called, though I had never heard of most of them.

所谓伟大的经典，尽管大部分我从未听说，是那些做牧师职位之类。

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Among the great books of mankind are the immortal writings by the Greek philosopher Plato.

在人类的知识宝库中，古希腊哲学家柏拉图写下了不朽的著作。

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The books were a great success even though some critics did not like them.

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The study of political philosophy often begins as this course will do also with the study of the great books or some of the great books of our field.

政治哲学研究的开始,就像这门课的作法,常起始于研究一些伟大的巨著,或是一些我们研究领域内的巨著。

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Furthermore it would seem that the study of the great books or great thinkers of the past can easily degenerate into a kind of antiquarianism into a sort of pedantry.

更甚之,研究这些巨著或,过往的伟大思想家,更可能轻易地降格为古物癖,或是卖弄学问。

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Classical Pursuits also recruits experts from (or familiar with) the Great Books Foundation, a Chicago nonprofit.

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The Great Books, so called, though I had never heard of most of them.

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It provides guests with everything from drug treatment to mental health services to classes in the great books to pre-school for young children.

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