来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第3集 第3集》

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  the unity or not the unity of one of the poems and so on.
  是否具有同一性有过激烈的争论
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  But it began a Critical Study of the poems for the first time
  这开启了诗歌批判研究的先河
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  and Critical Methods were applied to history
  十九世纪初期
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  for the first time ever, really,
  人们首次将批判理论应用于
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  in the early nineteenth century and thereafter.
  历史文献的研究中
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  And it became common to reject any ancient story
  越来越多的人开始不相信那些远古的故事
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  that wasn't really nailed down very, very firmly by some device.
  因为它们没有确凿的证据和可靠的说法
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  To take a skeptical view--
  从怀疑的观点来看
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  and a very interesting example
  这儿有一个很有趣的例子
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  of how things changed, if you look at people,
  是关于人们观念是怎么变化的
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  say an Englishman writing about Ancient Greece
  假如一个英国人在十八世纪
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  in the late eighteenth century,
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