History offered a feeble and delusive smile at the sound of the word; evolutionists and ethnologists disputed its very existence; no one knew what to make of it; yet, without the clue, history was a nursery tale.
听到这个词,历史露出了微弱而虚幻的微笑;进化论者学家争论它的存在;没有人知道该么做;然而,如果没有线索,历史就是事。