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历史History[英语名人名言]

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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

-- Winston Churchill

America is the only nation in history which miraculously¹ has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention² of civilization.

-- George Clemenceau

History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

-- Clarence Darrow

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

-- Albert Einstein

History is more or less bunk³.

-- Henry Ford⁴

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

-- Aldous Huxley

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

-- Aldous Huxley

Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.

-- Billy Joel

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

-- Erica Jong

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval⁵. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

-- Karl Marx

History is the version of past events that people have decided⁶ to agree upon.

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic⁷ motive⁸.

-- Ayn Rand

You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.

-- Will Rogers

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned⁹ to repeat it.

-- George Santayana

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

-- George Bernard Shaw

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous¹⁰ and sordid¹¹ succession of robber baron¹² scumbags devoid¹³ of any admirable human qualities.
I failed history.

-- Sting

Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.

-- Unknown history student

The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west.

-- Unknown history student

For most of history, Anonymous¹⁴ was a woman.

-- Virginia Woolf

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

-- Virginia Woolf

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1 miraculously
ad.奇迹般地
参考例句：
He had been miraculously saved from almost certain death. 他奇迹般地从死亡线上获救。 A schoolboy miraculously survived a 25 000-volt electric shock. 一名男学生在遭受2.5 万伏的电击后奇迹般地活了下来。

2 intervention
n.介入，干涉，干预
参考例句：
The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。 Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。

3 bunk
n.(车、船等倚壁而设的)铺位；废话
参考例句：
He left his bunk and went up on deck again.他离开自己的铺位再次走到甲板上。 Most economists think his theories are sheer bunk.大多数经济学家认为他的理论纯属胡说。

4 Ford
n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过
参考例句：
They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。 If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。

5 upheaval
n.胀起，(地壳)的隆起；剧变，动乱
参考例句：
It was faced with the greatest social upheaval since World War Ⅱ.它面临第二次世界大战以来最大的社会动乱。 The country has been thrown into an upheaval.这个国家已经陷入动乱之中。

6 decided
adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的
参考例句：
This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。 There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

7 altruistic
adj.无私的，为他人着想的
参考例句：
It is superficial to be altruistic without feeling compassion.无慈悲之心却说利他，是为表面。 Altruistic spirit should be cultivated by us vigorously.利他的精神是我们应该努力培养的。

8 motive
n.动机，目的；adv.发动的，运动的
参考例句：
The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。 He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。

9 condemned
adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的动词condemn的过去式和过去分词
参考例句：
He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。 The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。

10 monotonous
adj.单调的，一成不变的，使人厌倦的
参考例句：
She thought life in the small town was monotonous.她觉得小镇上的生活单调而乏味。 His articles are fixed in form and monotonous in content.他的文章千篇一律，一个调调儿。

11 sordid
adj.肮脏的，不干净的，卑鄙的，暗淡的
参考例句：
He depicts the sordid and vulgar sides of life exclusively.他只描写人生肮脏和庸俗的一面。 They lived in a sordid apartment.他们住在肮脏的公寓房子里。

12 baron
n.男爵；(商业界等)巨头，大王
参考例句：
Henry Ford was an automobile baron.亨利·福特是一位汽车业巨头。 The baron lived in a strong castle.男爵住在一座坚固的城堡中。

13 devoid
adj.全无的，缺乏的
参考例句：
He is completely devoid of humour.他十分缺乏幽默。 The house is totally devoid of furniture.这所房子里什么家具都没有。

14 anonymous
adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的
参考例句：
Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。 The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。

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