During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.
在第三纪，整个墨西哥山谷是一个大湖。
A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
历史
History
There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
追溯到希腊的证据至今仍然有效。
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
事实上，历史不过是犯罪和不幸的一个画面。
A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.
一年在政治上是永恒的——尽管在历史上还不到片刻。
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
最古老的书仍然只对那些没有读过的人开放。
Some folks is meant to make excuses. Some folks is meant to make history.
有些人就是为了找借口。有些人注定要创造历史。
History books are filled with lies. Whoever wins the war tells the story.
历史书上充满了谎言。谁赢了这场战争，谁就讲这个故事。
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
人的成长就是他的各种可能性被耗尽的历史。
Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.
如果你想看历史频道的文字和历史完美。
Now it is on the whole more convenient to keep history and theology apart.
总的来说，把历史和神学分开比较方便。
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.
历史上到处都是战争，每个人都知道这些战争永远不会发生。
Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.
没有什么能让我忘记里根时代的真实面貌。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
使我们明智的不是回忆过去，而是对未来的责任。
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
如果历史不断重演，而意想不到的事情总是发生，那么人类一定无法从经验中学习。
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
在人类(以及动物)的漫长历史中，那些学会了最有效地合作和即兴发挥的人占了上风。
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
人不能从历史的教训中学到很多东西，这是所有历史教训中最重要的一条。
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
人们从历史的教训中学不到多少，而这是所有历史教训中最重要的。
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
不能从历史中吸取教训的人注定要重蹈覆辙。
A LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT
给此刻的你，一点向前的力量。
关于学习、善意与成长，读一句，再想一想。
The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.
要想知道人们在特定时期过着怎样的生活，唯一的方法就是挖掘他们的记录，让他们为自己说话。
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
大多数人都有一种近乎无限的能力，认为一切都是理所当然的。人不能从历史的教训中学到很多东西，这是所有历史教训中最重要的一条。
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
爱好浪漫的人可以到别处去寻求满足，但爱好真理的人如果不求助于历史，又能向何处求助呢?