Now, for a long time in American scholarship and in American classrooms one of the deep mythologies about this whole story of the era of the American Civil War in the Old South is that the Old South's plantation economy was dying out.

在很长的一段时间中,美国学术界和美国课堂,对于这个时代内战前的南方历史,存有一个疑点,就是当时南方的种植园经济正在逐渐衰退

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Oh, by the way, just to let you know, these scientists of that era were polymaths.

顺便说一下，只是为了让你们知道，那个时代的科学家非常博学。

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The trial of Socrates takes place in the year 399 and all of these refer to before the common era 399.

苏格拉底的审判,发生在公元前399年，这些,全都指向共同年代─399年之前。

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The second great reform era is the Progressive Era, a great response to urbanization, industrialization and immigration, as it had never quite happened before.

第二个时期是进步时期,对于城市化的大力响应,工业化和移民入境,这是之前从未有过的

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In an era of computers with quite sophisticated computer programs, it seems, at the very least, natural to talk about beliefs, desires, and reasoning and strategizing.

在一个有着能搭载极端复杂程序的电脑的时代,最起码,谈论信仰,欲望,论证,谋划,是很自然的事

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He is also saying that the birth of Christ in Bethlehem was a nightmare for the world it altered, the world that it changed utterly a change that Yeats sees as the end now of the Christian Era and not its fulfillment.

他还说,基督在伯利恒的诞生,是一个噩梦，因为世界因此改变，彻底变了,叶芝把这个改变,看作基督时代的终结,而不是它的圆满。

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In my view, we need especially to examine the older traditions of the West that came before the modern era, and to take seriously the possibility that useful wisdom can be found there, especially among the Greeks who began it all.

所以我认为,我们得研究学习古时的,西方文明体系,认真的对待其中,实用智慧的潜在价值,特别是古希腊人的经验

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The Noah story, the flood story, ends with the ushering in of a new era, and it is in many ways a second creation that mirrors the first creation in some important ways.

诺亚方舟，洪水的故事，都预示着一个新纪元的到来，在很多方面，都像是第二次创世纪,同时，又有许多第一次创世纪的影子。

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There is a genre of literature that details the lives of saints, Hagiography, but that came later and is largely something we find in the Christian era.

有种文学体裁就是专门细节记录圣人生活的,圣徒传记，不过这出现的比较晚,而且大多是在基督公元之后。

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He grew up in the waning years, the last years, of the Elizabethan era, and he was a boy when Shakespeare's most famous plays were first performed.

他成长在，伊丽莎白时代的衰落期，最后几年，当莎士比亚著名的戏剧第一次被搬上舞台时,他还是个男孩。

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The first is this era, of the 1820s, '30s, '40s and '50s, Antebellum America, exemplified most obviously by the anti-slavery movement, which is where we're going to get to as we leave today.

第一个时期,是十九世纪二十年代,三十年代,四十年代和五十年代,内战前的美国,废奴运动就是其典型,这是我们今天下课前要弄明白的

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And one of the best analogies you can think of is the oil rich nations of the world in post-World War Two, in the post-World War Two era, whether it's Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran, the Emirates, or Venezuela, name--today Russia.

做个非常恰当的类比,你们可以把棉花想象成,二战后时期的石油,想想沙特阿拉伯,伊拉克,伊朗,阿联酋,委内瑞拉,和今天的俄罗斯吧

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