You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.

  • -- Ken Burns 肯·伯恩斯

作为一名历史学家,你需要从你的研究对象中得到必要的三角测量,而得到这种三角测量的唯一方法就是通过时间。

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .

这是最好的时代,这是最坏的时代,这是智慧的时代,这是愚蠢的时代……这是希望的春天,这是绝望的冬天……简而言之,这段时期与现在的时期如此相似……

I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.

我无法理解这个美利坚合众国的教育是如何一次又一次地被愚弄的。要么使它分离但相等,要么使它积分,因此它是相等的。它一直是分离和不平等的。