The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

  • -- E. M. Forster E·M·福斯特

历史学家必须对非历史学家的人的行为有所了解。否则,他将进入一个死的世界。他只能通过个人经验来获得这种观念,只有当他是天才的时候,他才能运用他的个人经验。

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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

对历史学家和其他人来说,能够看到不同现象的最常见的形式是很有用的,无论是语音的、形态的还是其他的,以及语言如何生存、继续和随着时间的推移而变化。

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

科学史学家可能会忍不住惊呼,当范式发生变化时,世界本身也随之发生变化。