The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

  • -- Stendhal 司汤达

历史学家的首要条件是没有发明创造的能力。

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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.

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。

I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

我认为国会的推理能力完全等同于司法。

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

我不能低估处理莎士比亚等经典作品的能力。

I'm a historian in my own mind.

在我看来,我是个历史学家。