Contemporary illustrations show cathedral spires collapsing, vaults caving in, high scaffolding keeling over in a chaos of planks and poles.

时代画作显示了大教堂尖塔倾倒，拱顶塌陷，高高脚手架倒在一片八七八糟木板和柱子中。

Be pleased to hear a modern tale.

那就欣然聆听一个时代故事吧。

But compared to most of my urban American contemporaries, I live a monastically simple life.

但是和大多数住在城市中时代美国人相比，我则过着如僧侣般简朴生活。

And I guess similarities with others are scarce when you are adamant that the Earth revolves around the Sun and the rest of the moronic folk that you share this planet with poke blankly refuse to believe you.

而我想聪明人和他人相似之处很少，因为当你坚定地相信地球围绕太阳旋转，而与你时代愚昧大众则全然地拒绝相信你观点。

Unlike most of his contemporaries in Hollywood, Hart actually knew something of the old West.

哈特与大部分时代在好，他确实了解西部早期拓荒生活一些情况。

But while none of Hypatia's own writings survive, her contemporaries' and students' accounts of her work and life paint a picture of the qualities that made her renowned as a scholar, beloved as a teacher, and ultimately led to her downfall.

但是，虽然希帕提娅自己作品都没有留存下来，但她时代人和学生对她工作和生活进行了描述，将她品质一一描绘，这些品质使她成为一名著名学者、受人爱戴老师，也最终导致她垮台。

Jan van Eyck's contemporaries, called him " an alchemist" , and although he did not invent oil painting, as has been suggested, he did refine it.

与扬·凡·艾克时代人称他为“炼金术士”，尽管他没有像人们所说那样发明油画，但他确实对它进行了改进。

Here's a contemporaneous article about the guy who invented cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, who said thinking machines were putting us on the eve of destruction.

这是一篇时代文章，讲述是发明控制论人诺伯特·维纳，他说会思考机器会让我们危在旦夕。

Police launched Operation Yewtree, an investigation into Savile and other celebrities from the same era.

警方启动“杉树行动”，调查萨维尔及时代其他名人。

But Alfred was different from most persons of his time.

可是阿尔弗雷德与时代大部分人。

He said that references by him and his friends to a girl called Renate, which contemporaries say were boasts of sexual conquest, real or pretended, were intended to show affection, and that she was one of us.

他说他和他朋友提到叫做雷纳特女孩，是“意在表达爱意，她是我们中一”。时代人说这是对性征服吹嘘，管是真还是假。

Moreover: we are to consider, that from the presumed great longevity of whales, their probably attaining the age of a century and more, therefore at any one period of time, several distinct adult generations must be contemporary.

还有，我们也要考虑到，据推测，大鲸寿命非常之长，它们也许能活上一百多年，因此，在任何一段时期，显然必定有几代成年鲸鱼是时代。

It's quite difficult to tell exactly how representative Egyptian mathematics is in the early second millennium BC.The only evidence we've got to compare it with at the same time is from Babylonia, southern Iraq.

目前唯一能与之比较物件来自与它时代巴比伦，位于今伊拉克南部。

Vermeer's contemporaries developed genres and techniques that he emulated, then soared beyond them in his use of colour and perspective and, above all, his unmatched mastery of light.

维米尔时代人发展出了一些流派和技巧，然后维米尔进行模仿并青出于蓝，包括对色彩和透视运用，其中最重要是他对光线无与伦比掌握。

Born into a middle-class family in 1746, in Fuendetodos in Aragon, he began painting young and was quickly recognised by his contemporaries for his genius.

他于 1746 年出生在阿拉贡富恩达托多斯一个中产阶级家庭，他很小时候就开始画画，其天赋很快就被时代人所认可。

While his contemporaries succumb to the city’s bright lights, Van Gogh flees Paris and gives us a stressed-out urbanite’s dream.

他时代人俯首于五光十色城市生活，梵高却逃离巴黎，留给我们一个堪重负都市人梦。

This book is historical and romantic fiction, not a history and neither Columbus nor any of his contemporaries ever claimed that he discovered North America.

这本书是历史和浪漫小说，是历史，哥伦布和他时代人都没有说过他发现了北美。

Among twentieth-century American fiction writers, his work is most often compared to that of his contemporaries William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

在二十世纪美国小说作家之中，他作品常常被人们和与他时代福克纳和菲茨杰拉德相提并论。

But she said to take a class with the experience of someone like Hansen, " and with your contemporaries is just a totally different dynamic."

但她说，和像汉森这样人去上课“和与你时代人一起上课会有完全动力。”

Most of his contemporaries, on the other hand, were convinced that the Moon was a god, or maybe a huge ball of fire.

而此时大多数他时代人却深信月球是神灵，或可能是个巨大火球。