It was the seventeenth century before Newton determined the freezing point of water.

那是17世纪，牛顿确定水的凝固点之前。

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Agriculture and fishing formed the primary sector of the economy in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century.

农业和渔业是17世纪荷兰经济的主要部分。

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This changed in the early part of the seventeenth century when horticulture became accepted as an agricultural sector.

这种情况在17世纪早期发生了变化；在当时，园艺被认为是一个农业部门。

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Signs on some of the houses say they were built as long ago as the seventeenth century.

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But for Milton's contemporaries in the seventeenth century, Milton's power really wasn't at all aesthetic or even religious in nature.

但在17世纪弥尔顿同时代的人看来，弥尔顿的力量却是毫无美感的，甚至本质上不是宗教上的。

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Let me take you back to the seventeenth century, up to the very beginning of the literary reception of John Milton.

让我把你们带回到17世纪，约翰·弥尔顿刚在文学领域为人所知的时候。

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The city always had a fairy-tale aspect, but until the seventeenth century its irreality was checked by an appetite for business.

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Not much different than the pirates of the seventeenth century, really, challenging authority in defense of the living treasures of the Enchanted Islands.

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Palenque de San Basilio was one of the walled communities called palenques, which were founded by escaped slaves as a refuge in the seventeenth century.

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