You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.

  • -- Ken Burns 肯·伯恩斯

作为一名历史学家,你需要从你的研究对象中得到必要的三角测量,而得到这种三角测量的唯一方法就是通过时间。

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My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

我的脊椎愈合不正确。有很长一段时间,我的身体完全没问题,但也有很多时候,我的背部会疲劳,把我摔倒在地板上,伴随着一阵阵令人作呕的疼痛。

Palaeontologists use fiction all the time.

古生物学家一直在使用小说。