ventor of dynamite, so in 1895, just two weeks before his death, he created a fund to be used for awarding prizes to people who had made worthwhile contributions to mankind.(诺贝尔宁愿自己不是作为甘油炸药的发明者而被人们记住,因此,他在1895年去世前的两个星期,创立了一项基金,奖励对人类做出有价值贡献的人们。)РOn the contrary, to avoid problems in aerial navigation, the wheelless vehicle probably will travel no more than three inches above road surface.( 相反,为了避免天线导航,没有轮子的汽车将在离地面不超过3英寸的距离行驶。)РOriginally the White House was gray and was called the Presidential Palace.(最初白宫是灰色的,并且被叫做总统府。)РPeople who question or even look down on the study of the past and its works usually assume that the past is entirely different from the present, and that hence we can learn nothing worthwhile from the past.(那些质疑甚至轻视对过去及先人作品研究的人们通常主观地认为过去与现在是完全不同的,从而得出人们无法从过去获取任何有价值的东西的结论。)
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