| 单词 | historical |
| 释义 | historical (hɪstɒrɪkəl , US -tɔːr- ) 1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B1+ Historical people, situations, or things existed in the past and are considered to be a part of history. ...an important historical figure. ...the historical impact of Western capitalism on the world. In Buda, several historical monuments can be seen. historically adverb Historically, royal marriages have been cold, calculating affairs. 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B1+ Historical books, films, or pictures describe or represent people, situations, or things that existed in the past. He is writing a historical novel about nineteenth-century France. ...another great Eisenstein historical film. 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B1+ Historical information, research, and discussion is related to the study of history. ...historical records. ...modern historical research. 4. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B2 If you look at an event within a historical context, you look at what was happening at that time and what had happened previously, in order to judge the event and its importance. It was this kind of historical context that Morris brought to his work. The Telegraph puts the union in a historical perspective. Collocations: historical average Instead, although stepping up spending recently, they have maintained their savings rate at about the 5% historical average. Times, Sunday Times However, its potential long-run growth forecast was pegged at 2 per cent, below the historical average of 3 per cent. Times, Sunday Times Its own customer default rates and bad repayment troubles were most recently double their historical average. Times, Sunday Times Trading at less than 13 times this year's forecast earnings, a discount to the group's historical average, they are worth a look. Times, Sunday Times They calibrated the historical average of increased debt to be 86 per cent. Globe and Mail But are there proper limits to the historical imagination? The Times Literary Supplement The divide between 'legitimate (rational) and illegitimate (irrational histories)' needs to be questioned while always maintaining the need for there to be more to history than mere historical imagination. The Times Literary Supplement Above all, there's a failure of historical imagination to appreciate any values other than those of our own time. Times, Sunday Times Apart from the sea-bathing, the only interest of the town for the modern visitor will live in the realm of historical imagination. The Times Literary Supplement He has been cried up, and cried down, with an equal lack of historical imagination. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They grip people who treat historical interpretation as a personal psychodrama. Times, Sunday Times When the war ended, the conflict was transferred to a 'smaller hot-plate', again in the field of historical interpretation. The Times Literary Supplement I go on about this error of historical interpretation because it's false and ought to be corrected, but also because it has damaging consequences. Times, Sunday Times The tidy taxonomies of reference works can easily conceal murky problems of historical interpretation. The Times Literary Supplement Recent historical interpretation of the martyr movement reflect questions on its nature. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Art historical landmark or load of old hype? Times, Sunday Times This revolutionary exhibition commemorates a historical landmark. Times, Sunday Times In 1974 the garden was named a national historical landmark. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The main building will continue to stand as a historical landmark. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The jail house still stands and efforts have been made to restore it as a historical landmark. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Destroying an existing historical legacy in areas under their control 'enables them to create their own starting point in history'. Times, Sunday Times A few have forged an internet-only presence, in effect banking their historical legacy and branding. Times, Sunday Times Then there's the historical legacy. Times, Sunday Times The provinces have no administrative function today, but live on as a historical legacy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It has a historical legacy in aviation, the military, and theater. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the five years before the recession, house prices broke their historical link with earnings because of a glut of credit available in the market. Times, Sunday Times We also talked about the historical link with the shock defeat. The Sun This would maintain an historical link with both original clubs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Most clubs have an historical link with their mascots. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Often, these can have local significance or a historical link to the armiger. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But all three incidents are a reminder that even something as seemingly innocuous as a historical marker can serve as a historical battleground. Smithsonian Mag Today, passersby will find overgrown ruins of the windmill and an historical marker defining the site. Smithsonian Mag Three weeks later we were informed that we had a historical marker against us that dated back to 1995, and our loan application was turned down. Times, Sunday Times There's not a single 1955 historical marker in the first novel. The Times Literary Supplement A smokehouse, privy and state historical marker are considered contributing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A different understanding of memory and memorial reconstruction includes historical memory, within a highly rhetorical cultural space. The Times Literary Supplement Changing the mindset and erasing the previous historical memory required changing all agents of memory. The Times Literary Supplement The break-up of formerly common states necessarily means the break-up of a constructed shared historical memory. The Times Literary Supplement Waging a crusade against 19th century statues confuses the present with the past and threatens the loss of the nation's historical memory. The Sun The government plans to eject the monks from the abbey that contained the mausoleum to turn it into a centre of historical memory. Times,Sunday Times He was a product of his early upbringing and that historical moment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Do they capture a mood, an emotion, an historical moment? Times, Sunday Times Pretend that you're viewing these pix in their historical moment. Times, Sunday Times Our modern ideas about the fundamental evil of human nature also belong to a specific historical moment. Times,Sunday Times Because this kind of education granted to students an understanding of their historical moment, it almost necessarily commended to them a sense of moral duty. Christianity Today And so we have the perfect confluence of contemporary functionality and historical monument. Times, Sunday Times An historical monument and a place where ancient stonemasons used to perfect their art. Times, Sunday Times As an historical monument, it will stand for ever. Times, Sunday Times Classified as a historical monument in 1964, the damaged portions of the fort were reconstructed between 1967 and 1971. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It has been open to visitors since 1950, and was classed as an historical monument in 1971. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But no one since has taken on the formidable task of shaping a historical narrative out of the abundant prehistoric data now available for the Mediterranean. The Times Literary Supplement (2014) At least, that is how the historical narrative has played out over the past 200 years. Times, Sunday Times (2017) That aesthetic along with the historical narrative led me to electricity pylons. Times, Sunday Times (2015) The loosely themed hang, which will change periodically, cannot pretend to offer an art historical overview. Times, Sunday Times (2012) It does not claim to be a historical overview of the war. Times, Sunday Times (2010) An historical overview of some aspects of the ruthenium tetroxide chemistry will be presented as well. 2014, 'Ruthenium Tetroxide and Perruthenate Chemistry. Recent Advances and Related Transformations Mediated by Other Transition Metal Oxo-species', Molecules The historical parallel was condemned by critics as a disturbing distortion of history. Times, Sunday Times Yet there are reasons to suppose that the historical parallel may be inexact. Times, Sunday Times He searches for a historical parallel. Times,Sunday Times I have looked for a historical parallel and found none. Outlook India It's rather an interesting historical parallel, actually. Times, Sunday Times There is one historical period that is hard to ignore here; indeed, it was almost the city's fons et origo. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Now, if you tend to get the fear when faced with a historical period drama like this, worry not. The Sun (2011) The post-industrial revolution period was one of those great historical periods in which ideas took on social significance. The Making of Neoclassical Economics (1990) What historical precedent could there plausibly have been which meant this was so? Times, Sunday Times There's a historical precedent for even the most blinged-up of bombers. Times, Sunday Times The country would be in the grip of crisis and historical precedent dictates that people would look to the monarch somehow to break the deadlock. Times, Sunday Times Stored in the libraries of major universities, they offer the reader loose guides to design possibilities and historical precedent. Smithsonian Mag All those involved in the economic crisis are guilty of putting their heads in the sand, hoping, against all historical precedent, that the boom would continue. Times, Sunday Times They are taking a fictional sitcom from the 1970s and role-playing it as historical reconstruction. Times, Sunday Times The event was a historical reconstruction, based on records of a famous wedding in the town in 1931. Times, Sunday Times As the evocative 'comparative thinking' in the book demonstrates, historical reconstruction need not be in competition with multidirectional memory. The Times Literary Supplement Simple in its way, this device nicely captures the elusiveness of historical reconstruction, and lends his archival searches and interviews the forward pull of a detective story. The Times Literary Supplement But who on earth dreamed up the wacky notion of adding this piece of bracing postwar serialism to a historical reconstruction of a concert dating from 50 years earlier? Times, Sunday Times This type of historical record constantly prompts its own distracting counterfactuals. The Times Literary Supplement However, the primary purpose of the narratives was to develop a theology through story, not create a historical record. Christianity Today But more than that, this music needs to be kept alive for the historical record it provides. Times, Sunday Times For days commentators have been scouring the historical record for parallels. Times, Sunday Times Revealing his latest find, he said the 'directness and honesty' of the portrait gave it validity as a historical record. Times, Sunday Times It was essentially your standard modernist box with bits and bobs stuck on in the name of wit and historical reference. Times, Sunday Times That it remains a historical reference point says much. Times, Sunday Times The message it imparted was a subtle mix of historical reference and uplifting emotion. Times, Sunday Times The next two in the series are thicker with historical reference without co-relating age dates. The Times Literary Supplement This excerpt acts as an historical reference but also acts as a means to understand what the people were going through at the time. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I am contemplating writing a wild historical romance. Christianity Today A historical romance, covering events from 1042 to 1066. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the late 1980s, historical romance dominated the romance genre. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The vast majority of her works have been historical romance, although she did write three contemporary romances. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A few paranormals are set solely in the past and are structured much like any historical romance novel. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The birth of modern historical scholarship in fact neatly (and significantly) coincided with the advent of a mass readership in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. The Times Literary Supplement Their calumnies are best exposed by scrupulous historical scholarship. Times, Sunday Times We want our history departments to burst with discussion of historical scholarship. Times, Sunday Times Do my convictions continue to be reasonable when challenged by historical scholarship? Christianity Today These we had attended with delight, not 'aghast', as the biographer suggests, because they felt like the front lines of historical scholarship at the time. The Times Literary Supplement The irony of discussing the future in such an historical setting won't have been lost on him. Times, Sunday Times Again, the historical setting provides us with clues. Christianity Today Too often, historical fiction settles for something cosier, for historical effect - a backdrop of buildings, costume, food, manners, sights and smells; fiction with a historical setting. The Times Literary Supplement With its rounded characters and fascinating historical setting, it deserves a wider audience. Times, Sunday Times To comprehend how remarkable a preoccupation this was, we need to appreciate the historical setting. The Times Literary Supplement So much more than a museum or historical site, it feels like a living, breathing place of dialogue and engagement. Times, Sunday Times Viewers are being asked to vote for a favourite historical site. Times, Sunday Times She said they would inform prosecutors of the incident and added that those involved 'will probably be charged with desecrating a monument or other historical site'. Times, Sunday Times There were historical site visits including some of the confederate battlefields. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The building was declared a historical site in 1986. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Most of his college activity was centred upon the college historical society, in which he held the auditorship and was a medallist for oratory. Times, Sunday Times The local historical society wants it kept open to be 'accessible to the people'. Times, Sunday Times The local historical society found reference to it on a map from 1605. Times, Sunday Times After serving for a time as a garage, the building was rehabilitated by the local historical society in 1964. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1877 a local historical society began to plan a monument for the battle's centenary, and considered many designs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But in the years that followed, nobody had recognised their value as historical source material. Times, Sunday Times His slick, soft-rock anthems proved equally palatable, albeit deracinated and decontextualised from all the dirt and passion of their historical source material. Times, Sunday Times Channel 4 acknowledged that the tapes were made in private but a spokesman said they were 'an important historical source'. Times, Sunday Times The internet as a historical source? Times, Sunday Times Each of the 18 cases are designed to be a discrete historical source for an area of learning. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Most budget mysteries can be solved with a little historical study. Times, Sunday Times She asked new questions, studied different kinds of sources and extended that branch of historical study into new frontiers. Times, Sunday Times In short, it’s a historical study of consumer behavior. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Her historical study had given her special insight into what could happen if individuals, buffeted by bad advice or challenging circumstances, led countries towards disaster. Times,Sunday Times His magnificent verses should not have taken the place of historical study. Times, Sunday Times Historians too can employ the time-travel conceit; doing so allows us to explore earlier societies differently and more immediately than in a traditional historical text. Times, Sunday Times Others refer to another historical text for its origin. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For example, the unification of grass (explained above), means that a historical text can not be encoded so as to preserve its peculiar orthography. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In this view, historians do their best to tease out later editorial additions (itself a very difficult task) and skeptically view accounts of miracles, leaving behind a reliable historical text. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Previously, the phenomenon was relegated only to historical texts, per a statement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The break with the past has never been entire, however, because all of them have been on a historical theme. Times, Sunday Times With renewed debates about public memory and monuments, it’s more important than ever to examine sites like historical theme parks as places where individuals learn history. Smithsonian Mag Readers will sometimes disagree with this book, but they will also welcome the lively way in which it has opened up new ways of looking at a major historical theme. The Times Literary Supplement Each day had a different historical theme with speeches by well-known people. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He made many appearances in crime dramas, often with a historical theme and appeared in a high number of western films. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In fact, public tears are part of a long historical tradition. Times, Sunday Times It doesn't feel overburdened by art's historical tradition and besides, in this smartphone era, surely anyone — even you — could take that winning snap? Times, Sunday Times That would be an earthquake for the tribal rulers of the emirates, who derive their power from historical tradition. Times, Sunday Times So in a sense, they gave us our modern historical tradition. Times, Sunday Times Its name holds the name of the former teaching college (from before 2011), creating a continuity from its historical tradition to the presence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It includes historical trend charts and graphs showing how two different currencies have fluctuated over periods of between one day and 10 years. Times, Sunday Times He often ends up as a humanoid symbol for a school of thought or a historical trend. The Times Literary Supplement That, too, could be part of a historical trend. Houston Chronicle He needs to establish how he intends to buck the historical trend and emerge from coalition a stronger party, rather than a hollow shell. Times, Sunday Times Nonetheless, their proximity has led to a historical trend in which high activity at one volcano roughly coincides with low activity at the other. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He means this notion to be taken as historical truth. Times, Sunday Times We should resist the claim that artefacts belong where they were made, not least because it denies historical truth. The Sun We have earnest and pointless combats over the compatibility of a belief with scientific or historical truth. Times, Sunday Times The painting still hangs there—enshrined as historical truth. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These representations further embellished a legend that long ago overwhelmed historical truth. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Here the same qualities of detailed textual examination and wideranging historical understanding were displayed. Times, Sunday Times I wish it had made a bigger space for the humdrum what-why-when of historical understanding. Times, Sunday Times At least some of its chapters suggest that the movies might actually contribute to better historical understanding. Christianity Today The variations and novelties in historical understanding and expression which result from the two dialogues are routine consequences of the historian doing his or her job along prescribed, professional lines. The Times Literary Supplement On the one hand, projects of historical understanding seem to epitomize scholarly rigour. The Times Literary Supplement He continued to busy himself with his historical writing. Times, Sunday Times He rightly rejects the 'serious and profoundly misleading tendency to judge all historical writing by modern standards'. The Times Literary Supplement Even as a narrative of western historical writing, the book seems capricious. Times, Sunday Times Although he plays down his early fiction, a novelistic sense of character, personality, plot and scene-setting pervades his historical writing. Times, Sunday Times This differs from much recent popular historical writing. The Times Literary Supplement Translations: Chinese: 历史的 Japanese: 歴史上の |
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