Your book is also a mini-history lesson - tell us about some of the characters.

您的这本书也是一门迷你的历史课，跟我们说说书中的人物吧。

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Reading Tom Vanderbilt's latest book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About us), I was struck by a recurring theme: Making things safer may actually make them more dangerous.

读汤姆·范德比尔特的新书：《我们为何那样行驶》，我对其中一个反复出现的主题感到震惊：增加事物的安全性可能反而让它们变得更危险。

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Often seen as a cautionary tale about the breakdown of civilization, the book details "the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart" and the horrific possibilities that lie within us all.

本书常被视为文明崩溃的警世故事，详述了“天真的结束，人性的黑暗”，以及深藏所有人内心、令人害怕的种种可能。

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Book I that we spoke about last time really in a way tells us something about the you might say almost the metaphysics of Aristotle's politics.

我们上次讲到的第，I，册,在很多方面真的就是,在告诉我们关于亚里士多德,政治理念的形上学。

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Finally, there is the field work I did to prepare for writing Borrowed Dreams, a book of real-life adventures about the work that makes us who we are.

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"We know little about the everyday lives of the nuns at Lacock Abbey that this one book gives us a remarkable rare glimpse, a short glance into how they might have lived their lives, " said Sonia Jones, house and collections manager.

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I've just read a fascinating book about one of the big issues in America which divides the US and most puzzles us British: America's gun laws.

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