| 1. | He asked the opinions of his contemporaries .
他征求过同时代人的意见。 |
| 2. | A judgmental infelicity plagued past generations .
这种不恰当的看法曾困扰了几代人。 |
| 3. | It sharpened the poetic sensibility of two generations .
它提高了两代人对诗的敏感力。 |
| 4. | For generations banking has ignored public problems .
几代人以来，银行界对社会问题一向熟视无睹。 |
| 5. | The third law was discovered by kepler, who was a contemporary of galileo .
第三个定律是开普勒发现的，他是伽利略的同代人。 |
| 6. | The greek concentration on geometry blurred the vision of later generations .
希腊人之专注于几何迷糊了后世好几代人的视界。 |
| 7. | Yet four lives of ordinary duration would suffice to transmit, from mouth to mouth .
其实，逝去的充其量不过是四代人的平凡岁月，口头流传也就足矣。 |
| 8. | Where power has been exercised over generations, a kind of hereditary incorruptibility grows up .
有的连续几代人握有实权，但仍相继保持某种廉洁之风。 |
| 9. | There are still individuals who are superior to their fellow men by their wisdom, their courage, their character .
仍有一些人在智慧，勇气和性格方面超乎他们的同代人之上。 |
| 10. | The long-term social threat posed by uncontrolled soil erosion raises profound questions of intergenerational equity .
土壤侵蚀带来的长期社会威胁会造成两代人之间的不公平。 |
