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历史学家
Historians
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。
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
历史重演。历史学家彼此重复。
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
历史学家讲述过去的故事，小说家讲述现在的故事。
Until Lions have their own historians tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
直到狮子有了自己的历史学家，关于狩猎的故事才会永远颂扬猎人。
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
现在，有一些人想改写历史——我把他们称为修正主义历史学家。
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。
I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
我认为，历史学家和历史事件的分析者需要事件的现场目击者所提供的事实的权威性，他们把这些事件作为他们研究的主题。
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.
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。
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。
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
人们走的路越远越好，走的路越走越远，走的路越走越远，走的路越走越远，走的路越走越远，犯的错误也越多。然后，历史学家们对这个混乱的非线性过程进行总结，使它看起来像一条简单的直线。