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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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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

两国之间既没有交往，也没有同情;他们对彼此的习惯、思想和感情一无所知，好像他们是不同地区的居民，或者是不同星球上的居民。富人和穷人。

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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

民族性格只是人类的渺小、变态和卑劣在每个国家所表现出来的特殊形式的另一个名称。凡国民戏笑别国的民，都是公义的。

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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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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

也许新社会历史学家最重要的一课是，历史属于那些关于谁或谁的文件幸存下来的人。

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I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

我确实相信，作为人类，我们有大量的矛盾。

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