来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：现代早期英国社会 第1集 第1集》
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Secondly, because it's also intellectually demanding.其次 学习历史很费脑子 -
All history, of course, involves us in a所有的历史学 -
fairly rigorous intellectual discipline.都需要我们的公正严谨与理性 -
We have to develop arguments about causation,我们要探索因果关系的论点 -
about why things happened the way they did,为什么事情会是这样发生的 -
and we do that by establishing a dialog如何回答这一问题呢 -
between the questions that we want to ask我们要把自己的设想 -
and the evidence which the past has left to us.和历史留给我们的证据联系起来 -
Well, my point is simply that that can be a peculiarly简而言之 -
enthralling exercise for periods of the distant past研究历史 令人着迷 -
for which the evidence is often ambiguous因为遗留的证据往往是模糊的 -
or difficult or partial,晦涩的 片面的