It began to infiltrate other disciplines and was in general a high-spirited horse for that certain period of time.

它逐渐渗入到其它学科,总之是那个时代的一匹黑马。

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There are lots of people who have pointed out to us that before a certain period, there was no such thing as man, and in a variety of quite real senses, after a certain moment in the history of culture, there is also no such thing as man.

很多人向我们指出,在某一特定时间点前是没有人类的，而且在真实意义上，在文化史中的某一特定时刻后，人类也不存在。

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We didn't know a great deal about certain authors until this period of the flourishing of philology in the very late nineteenth and early twentieth century took hold and pretty much created for us the archive that we now use today in a variety of ways.

有些作家的作品,直到19世纪末20世纪初的,语言学繁荣期才为人所知,这个时期也孕育了,我们今天用来研究的文本档案。

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