Famous atheists mocked them and then capitulated themselves to the mysteries of the spirit world: like Annie Besant, a social reformer who ended up as a credulous theosophist.

一些有名的无神论者先是对这种行为嗤之以鼻, 之后却纷纷投入神秘的亡灵之域。例如，一位叫安妮.本森特的社会改革家，最后却成了一名轻信的见神论者。

Earned his stripes as a banking reformer in the 1990s but, after last week's mess, may wish he had retired as planned in March.

在上世纪90年代作为银行改革家获得声誉，然而在上周的混乱之后（注：指今年6月银行钱荒事件），或许他会希望自己在3月份时就已按计划退休。

His fellow reformers were executed or else, they fled to Tokyo.

改革家们要被处决，要东京。

In Germany, the winter tradition of placing evergreens in their homes took on a new significance in the 16th century when Protestant reformer Martin Luther put candles in the branches.

在德国，16世纪，新教改革家马丁·路德在常青树的树枝上插上蜡烛后，在家中放置常青树的这个冬季传统就有了新的意义。

Many people think it is unlikely Abdul-Mahdi will be able to make big changes at the ministries. But the website may help his image as a political reformer. Many Iraqis are angry with party politics.

许多人认为，阿卜杜勒-马赫迪不太可能在内阁做出重大改变。但该网站可能有助于他的改革家形象。许多伊拉克人对党感愤怒。

Her father was a wealthy banker. Julia married Samuel Gridley Howe. He was a reformer and teacher of the blind. Julia and Samuel Howe moved to Boston.

她的父亲是一名富有的银行家。朱莉亚嫁给了萨缪尔·格里德利·豪。他是一名改革家兼盲人教师。朱莉亚和萨缪尔搬去了波士顿。

When he came to power in 2018, Abiy was feted in the west as a liberal reformer, one who would shepherd an Ethiopia bedevilled by factional politics and competing identities into a democratic future.

2018年上台时，阿比在西方被誉为自由改革家，他将引导一个被系和相互竞争所困扰的埃塞俄比亚走向民主的未来。

The Brandeis Brief came during a pivotal court case in the early 20th century, and the man at the center of that case was a legal realist and progressive reformer named Louis Brandeis.

布兰代斯摘要出现在20世纪初一个关键的法庭案件中，而该案的核心人物是一位名叫路易斯·布兰代斯的法律现实主义者和进步改革家。

Other language reformers have begun their work only after they had a state at their disposal.

其他语言改革家只有在有了自己的国家后才开始工作。

From her bed, the great medical reformer tirelessly advocated for equal treatment of the poor by nurses and doctors.

这位伟大的医学改革家在病床上不知疲倦地倡导护士和医生平等对待穷人。

Whether that reformer arrives soon to deliver better infrastructure, swifter justice and good governance is less clear.

这样的改革家是否将很快来--建设更好的基础设施、保证更快捷的正义和开展更好的理--并不明朗。

The agenda may reveal how reformist he really is.

通过会议议程就可知道他底是个什样的改革家。

The woman's name was Julia Ward Howe. She was a writer and social reformer. She was born in New York City in eighteen nineteen.

这位女士的名字叫做朱莉亚·沃德·豪。她是一名作家兼社会改革家。她于1819年在纽约出生。

British social reformer Edwin Chadwick publishes guidance on sanitary conditions for workers.

英国社会改革家埃德温·查德威克发表了关于工人卫生条件的指导。

The widespread availability of public schools really took off in the middle of the 19th century, when politician and educational reformer Horace Mann pushed for Massachusetts to create a formalized, state funded system of primary schools.

公共学校的大规模普及真正始于19世纪中叶，当时客兼教育改革家霍拉斯·曼推动马萨诸塞州建立一个正式的、由州资助的小学体系。

And all of these techniques, these kinds of things that made people like John Ruskin and William Morris, the design reformers, crazy, take shortcuts and use technology to produce goods that look fancy, but cost less.

所有这些技巧，这些让人们像设计改革家约翰·拉斯金和威廉·莫里斯发疯的事情，都是为了走捷径，利用技术生产出看似华丽却成本低廉的商品。

The term collective bargaining was coined by British socialist reformer Beatrice Webb in 1891 to describe the process by which workers organize into unions, which negotiate pay and conditions with employers on the workers' behalf.

" 集体谈判" 一词由英国社会主义改革家比阿特丽斯·韦伯于1891年创造， 用以描述工人组织成工会，代表工人与雇主协商薪资和工作条件的这一过程。

In that century the English art critic and social reformer John Ruskin pointed out that the medieval building industry had once left its builders-- room for a huge amount of creativity

在那个世纪，英国艺术评论家和社会改革家约翰·罗斯金指出，中世纪的建筑行业曾经为建筑师们留下了巨大的创意空间。

You don't have to become a Florence Nightingale or a social reformer to help improve the world-your own private world; you can start tomorrow morning with the people you meet!

你不必成为佛罗伦萨南丁格尔或社会改革家来帮助改善世界——你自己的私人世界； 你可以从明天早上开始与你遇的人一起！

Those reformers are looking to replace me.

那些改革家们想夺我的权。