尽管有《河岳英灵集》《箧中集》等唐诗文本可作依托，有《新唐书》《旧唐书》《资治通鉴》《唐诗纪事》等文献可供佐证，要完整呈现唐朝诗人的精神肖像，仍然是一件不可能的任务。我并未奢望为近300年的唐诗写一部编年史，或为笔下的每个诗人撰写一部生平全传。吸引我的，总是生命中的困境与转折时刻。如同进入一片森林，截取一株树的剖面，细察其年轮和纹理，这种微观叙事的方法，自然会融合起史学的视野、传记的实证与散文的笔调。似乎也只有这种写法，才与我心目中的那个唐朝相匹配。
This sort of thing is why I think historians need to be more active in technical discussions and decision-making about emerging technology. Everything about our current world is different from the premodern world that our ancestors inhabited. The past truly is a foreign country. But we carry fragments of that foreign world with us in our physical selves, in the gestures and other implicit knowledge we teach our kids. We take it for granted that there are aspects of being human which are never written down and which are unknowable unless you experience them.
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10. 联合国报告：全球经济展现韧性但增长乏力贸易紧张与债务压力拖累前景 - the United Nations, www.un.org/ru/node/238…
"Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes," he said. "I was very much an airplane boy."