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Books and Arts; Book Review; English landscape; Up hill, down dale. TOM FORT pedals down the A303 in Britain’s soft south. Paul Barker trudges round Hebden Bridge in the hard north. Both writers ar...

文艺；书评；书卷中的英伦风光;风光无限好 汤姆·福特骑自行车从英国平坦的南部A303道顺道而下。保罗·巴克在崎岖的北部的Hebden Bridge附近艰难跋涉。两位作家都在寻找他们所选择的地点的独特之处。同样的，二者都敏感关注 “非场...

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His namesake would have called this pursuing the virtuous life. He called it “prioritising the human being”. The best thing about football, he said once, was the ordinary people he met—including those...

哲学家苏格拉底可能会称这种追求为有美德的生活。他则称之为“人类优先”。他曾说过，关于足球最美好的事物是他结识的普通民众——包括佳儿佛斯的那些人们。佳儿佛斯靠近英格兰北部城市利兹，苏格拉底曾在 2004 年的一个寒冷月份在此执教一家非联赛球队...

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One was short, fat and famously ugly; the other was handsome, slim and very tall indeed, with tumbling dark curls caught back in a headband. One skulked about in a grubby robe and sandals; the other s...

一个身材矮小、体态肥胖、丑得出奇；另一个身材修长、个子高挑、英俊潇洒，头箍后一袭卷发飘洒。一个身着脏脏长袍、脚踩邋遢凉鞋；另一个下着蓝色短裤、上穿巴西金黄色衬衫。一个徘徊于集市之间，用严密的逻辑问题狂轰滥炸，诱导出“善”。另一个是足球运动员...

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The majority of the civilian soldiers of the Western democracies, by contrast, just wanted to survive and return to normal life as soon as possible. That also meant that American and British generals ...

相比之下，西方民主国家的民兵大都只想保住性命，尽快回归正常生活。这也意味着英美两军的将军不得不避开那些为了不受惩罚而不顾生死的好斗的俄国和德国士兵。幸好德国国防军在俄罗斯的大屠杀中被击溃，十个德国士兵中有九个牺牲，他们才能表现的这么谨慎。 ...

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Mr Hastings's technique is to mine the written record of those who took part both actively and passively. His witnesses range from the men whose decisions sent millions to their deaths to the ordinary...

不论是那些积极参与还是被迫卷入二战的人，马克斯·哈斯丁都会搜集他们留下的文字资料，这是他的技巧。他的二战见证者包括决策造成几百万人死亡的人、执行其命令的普通士兵和默默承受苦难的平民，范围极广。犬儒主义与理想主义、苦难与愉快、勇气与恐惧、残暴...

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Books and Arts; Book review; The second world war; Counting the cost; Two British historians analyse the 20th century’s worst conflict. All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945. By Max Ha...

文艺；书评； 第二次世界大战; 二战代价几何？ 看两位英国历史学家如何剖析20世纪最严重的军事冲突。 《人间地狱：1939-1945，战争中的世界》 作者：马克斯·哈斯丁。 《第二次世界大战》作者：安东尼·比弗。 ...

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Opera; Star light, star bright; A meditation on England; In 1572 a new star blazed through the sky. It was a cataclysmic event for scholars, who believed at the time that the universe was unchangin...

音乐剧；星光灿烂；英格兰的冥想； 1572年天空中出现了一颗闪烁的新星。这对于当时那些认为宇宙是永恒不变的学者来说是一场灾难性的事情。约翰·迪伊过去住在摩特雷克，现在住在泰晤士河畔里士满区。无论他住在哪里，都会举首凝望那仍然纯净无暇的...

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Books and arts. Books review. Ernest Hemingway's Biography. The old man and the sea. Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961. By Paul Hendrickson. Paul Hendrickson bibli...

书籍和艺术 书评 欧内斯特·海明威的传记 老人与海 《海明威的船：他生命中所热爱的一切，失去的一切，1934-1961》; 作者：保罗·亨德里克森 保罗·亨德里克森传记的参考目录中列举了76部关于海明威的传记作品，其中9部...