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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

  • -- Eric Hobsbawm 埃里克·霍布斯鲍姆

没有过去的国家在某些方面是矛盾的。造就一个国家的是过去，证明一个国家反对其他国家的正当性的是过去，历史学家是创造历史的人。

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Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.

半个世纪以前，情况完全不同。在经济上，我们实际上是跪着的，在政治上，我们仍然被排除在国际社会之外。今天，在这方面，我们有一个完全不同和稳定得多的基础。

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As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.

正如第一次世界大战令人痛苦地表明的那样，当政治家和将军们带领国家进入战争时，他们几乎总是假定会迅速取得胜利，而且有一种非常持久的倾向，即不会预见到事后看来显而易见的问题。

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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

评论家通常都是诗人，历史学家，传记作家，如果可能的话。他们在一件事或另一件事上试过他们的才能，但都失败了;因此他们变成了批评家。

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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

在写一系列关于同一人物的故事时，要事先对整个系列的一些细节进行规划，以避免矛盾和前后矛盾。

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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

我试着一次带一个人去，带着我们大多数人都生活在其中的矛盾和妥协。

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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

重要的是创造历史，而不是写历史。

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