At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

有时，我们被迫经历一段依赖的历史，无法决定自己的命运。但今天，我们正处在一个新的转折点的起点。

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

不要急于成为伟人。一万个人中就有一个这样的尝试可能会成功。这些都是可怕的机会。

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

在电影产业的短暂历史中，有数十亿人看过电影并受到电影的影响。

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

传记是一个非常明确的地域，它以历史为北，以小说为南，以讣告为东，以沉闷为西。

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

黑人对他们的历史没有一个准确的认识，他们的历史要么被压制，要么被扭曲。

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

全世界的黑人女性应该重新团结起来，重新审视历史对我们的描述。

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

但是，也许我们其他人可以在科学鉴赏、科学奇迹、科学思维方式和科学思想史等方面单独上课，而不是在实验室里体验。

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

但是，正如我们以前所指出的那样，达尔文先生的大多数陈述由于含糊不清和不完整而没有受到自然史事实的检验。

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

历史上的某些时期突然将人类提升到一个观察点，在那里，一束明亮的光照射到先前黑暗的世界上。

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

阶级斗争，有的阶级胜利，有的阶级消灭。这就是历史;这就是几千年的文明史。

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

传统上，人们把历史看作是过去的事情。但在爱因斯坦之后，谁知道过去和现在是什么?

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

在外国统治下的国家很快就会忘记他们的历史，他们的过去，他们的传统，他们的国家象征，他们的生活方式，往往还有他们自己的文学语言。

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

把争吵从文学中剔除，历史、戏剧、小说或史诗就所剩无几了。

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

爸爸，我遇到麻烦了。发生了一场意外，从现在起你会听到各种各样关于我的事。可怕的事情。

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

日期和时期只有音乐史的学生才感兴趣。