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

的画作显示了大教堂尖塔的倾倒，拱顶的塌陷，高高的脚手架倒在一片八七八糟的木子中。

Be pleased to hear a modern tale.

那就欣然聆听一个的故事吧。

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

但是大多数住在城市中的的美国人相比，我则过着如僧侣般简朴的生活。

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.

而我想聪明人他人的相似之处很少，因为当你坚定地相信地球围绕太阳旋转，而与你的愚昧的大众则全然地拒绝相信你的观点。

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

哈特与大部分在好莱的演员不，他确实了解西部早期拓荒生活的一些情况。

Like many of its contemporaries, WeWork's filing suggests it struggles to make a profit.

与许多公司一样，WeWork的文件显示，该公司难以盈利。

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，虽然希帕提娅自己的作品都没有留存下来，但她的人学生对她的工作生活的进行了描述，将她的品质一一描绘，这些品质使她成为一名著名的学者、受人爱戴的老师，也最终导致她的垮台。

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

警方启动“杉树行动”，调查萨维尔及的其他名人。

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·艾克的人称他为“炼金术士”，尽管他没有像人们所说的那样发明油画，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.

这是一篇的文章，讲述的是发明控制论的人诺伯特·维纳，他说会思考的机器会让我们危在旦夕。

But Alfred was different from most persons of his time.

可是阿尔弗雷德与的大部分人不。

Further away from the razzle-dazzle of contemporary art, the frantic hustle of now.

远离那些眼花缭乱的艺术风格，以及现世疯狂的拥挤喧嚷。

Frank's work featured other cultural icons of the day.

弗兰克的作品在中也是标杆一样的存在。

Tang and Shakespeare were contemporaries and both died in 1616.

汤莎士比亚，都死于 1616 年。

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.

他说他他的朋友提到叫做雷纳特的女孩，是“意在表达爱意，她是我们中的一员”。的人说这是对性征服的吹嘘，不管是真的还是假的。

He was one of the richest people in history, but he didn't spend his fortune on lavish feasts and heavy food like his wealthy contemporaries.

他是历史上最富有的人之一，但他并没有像他富人那样将他的财富花在奢华的宴会油腻的食物上。

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，大鲸的寿命非常之长，它们也许能活上一百多年，因此，在任何一段期，显然必定有几成年鲸鱼是的。

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的物件来自与它的巴比伦，位于今伊拉克南部。

Lao Tzu There's no proof that he truly ever lived, but if he did, it should have been somewhere around the 5th and 6th century B. C, which makes him a contemporary of Confucius.

老子没有证据表明他曾经真正活过，但如果他活过，他一定在大约公元前 5 到 6 世纪，与孔子。

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.

维米尔的人发展出了一些流派技巧，然后维米尔进行模仿并青出于蓝，包括对色彩透视的运用，其中最重要的是他对光线的无与伦比的掌握。