There were other great contemporaries of his with whom I would not have ventured to take such liberties, nor would I have met with the like response if I had.

对于别的和他同时期的大人物，我就不敢冒昧去请求了，我就是去了，也得不到和他一样的响应。

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How can we know who among our contemporaries will be remembered as great and which people, though famous today, will be forgotten in the future?

我们怎样才能知道谁在我们的同时代人将被视为伟大的，人们记住的，虽然著名的今天，就会被人遗忘的未来？

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His a Farewell to Arms is considered as a great genuine masterpiece among its contemporaries.

他的《永别了，武器》被认为是那个时代伟大的杰作。

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Here Russian painters can be caught at the moment when they ceased to imitate their French and Italian contemporaries, as they had done under Catherine the Great, and started to discover their own distinct country of mysterious landscapes, fading light, desperate peasants and brooding great men.

ECONOMIST: Art from Russia

While Mr Inwood spends several pages describing the Great Fire of 1666, with the help of accounts by contemporaries such as Pepys and Clarendon, Mr Sheppard devotes a single paragraph to describing one of the seminal events in London's history before moving on to the rather less gripping subject of the planning regulations that governed the rebuilding of the city.

ECONOMIST: London uncovered