1. "Perhaps you might seek the advice of men we call griots, respected village elders in their late sixties or seventies or eighties, who could tell you about their village history centuries back."
    “也许你可以去问问那些我们叫作“长老”的男人们，他们都有六十、七十或八十多岁，是村里受尊敬的老人。他们可以告诉你关于他们村庄几个世纪以前的历史。”

2. Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
    革命是历史的火车头。

3. Neither the people who own stock in the company, nor the officers of the 220 banks that provided history's biggest loan, nor the 3,000 journalists trying to imagine three parallel tunnels beneath 100 feet of water and 130 feet of clay.
    不论是公司的股票持有人，还是提供了历史上最大贷款的220家银行的官员们，或者是3,000名记者，都无一例外。记者们只可尽力想像水下100英尺、泥土下130英尺的三条并行的隧道的状况。

4. Our history teacher is always generalizing;he never deals with anything in detail.
    我们的历史老师总爱抽象概括从不涉及细节.

5. Our next lesson is history.
    下一节是历史课。

6. One of the most colourful figures in boxing history was Daniel Mendoza, who was born in 1764.
    拳击史上最引人注目的人物之一是丹尼尔.门多萨，他生于1764年。

7. On the east of the square is the new Museum of Chinese History.
    广场东侧是新建成的中国历史博物馆。

8. I supported my original claim with evidence : a brief but pertinent history of my work experience.
    我用证据支持我最初的声言：我工作经验的一个简短但相关的历史。

9. I stopped and checked my list of classes. It was a history class. Good.
    我停下来，看了看我的课程表。这是一堂历史课。很好。

10. It is the kind of moment in history when, to summarize in the words of Alfred North Whitehead, familiar patterns fade, familiar solutions fail, and familiar options disappear.
    一个引起恐慌的时刻。我们不妨用阿尔弗雷德·诺思·怀特海德的话来加以归纳: 在历史上的这种时刻，熟悉的模式在消退，熟悉的解决办法在失效，熟悉的选择在消失。