Like all successful states, then as now, it needed people who could do the maths.

每一个成功的国家，不管是过去还是现在，都需要数学人才。

Philosophers were in the minds of many, then as now rather abstract and remote figures.

哲学家们在许多人心中，那时和现在都比较抽象和遥远一些人物。

Then as now, I tend to go through periods of idleness followed by periods of workaholic frenzy.

那时候乃至现在，我都有种习惯，一阵过得特别闲散，接下来一阵又像工作狂一样大干不止。

Then, as now, her centre-right Christian Democrats were yoked with the centre-left Social Democrats in a grand coalition.

而现在，她的中右倾基社党与中左倾社民党联手组成大联盟。

Then, as now, he threatened to ruin everything.

就像现在 他威胁到了我的计划。

Then as now, truth clearly tends to lose its meaning in a crisis.

当时和现在一样， 真理显然在危机中往往会失去意义。

Then, as now, there was plenty of information in the news about ordinary people.

那时和现在一样，新闻中有大量关于普通人的信息。

Then, as now, the work started by listening, and what we learned astonished us.

那时，和现在一样，工作是从倾听开始的，我们学到的东西令我们吃惊。

These fights were often violent, and then, as now, often ended in people being killed.

这些战斗往往是暴力的，然后，就像现在一样，往往以人被杀而告终。

I had intended then , as now , to make Watts my home.

我当时和现在一样打算把瓦茨当作自己的家。

It was his only chance to preserve his inheritance and his kingdom. But royal divorce, then as now, was political dynamite.

但王室的离婚件，不论今时还是往日，都是政治上的一颗重磅炸弹。

If I had understood the Negro psychology as well then as now, I should have gone after her.

如果当时我能像现在这样了解黑人心理， 我就会去找她了。

Back then, as now, each gang had a certain area that they controlled within a city or town.

过去和现在一样，每个帮派在城市或城镇内都有他们控制的特定区域。

Then, as now, radical solutions were called for to revolutionise the way people lived and safeguard humanity against catastrophe.

当时和现在一样，人们呼吁采取激进的解决方案来彻底改变人们的生活方式并保护人类免受灾难。

At Loshan, then as now, a traveler could go up the Polikiang, or Glass River, in a junk to Meishan.

在乐山，当年也和现在一样，旅客可以乘一小舟自玻璃江逆流而上直到眉山。

It sat snugly then as now under tall old orange trees, and had a simple grace of line, low, rambling and one-storied.

那时它像现在一样舒适地坐落在高大的老橘子树下， 线条简洁优雅， 低矮、杂乱、单层。

'Confirmation was a sight different at that time, ' mused Biles. 'The Bishops didn't lay it on so strong then as they do now.

“当时的确认是一种不同的景象，”拜尔斯沉思道。 “主教们当时并没有像现在这样强硬。

King attended Morehouse College, then as now one of America's best historically black universities, before moving on to seminary in Pennsylvania and graduate school in theology at Boston University.

金就读于莫尔豪斯学院，这所学校至今仍是美国最好的黑人大学之一，然后金进入宾夕法尼亚州的神学院和波士顿大学的神学研究生院继续学习。

But the press – then, as now, largely owned by wealthy supporters of the Conservative party – portrayed it as deliberate disrespect for the nation's war dead from the pacifist Foot.

但媒体——当时和现在一样， 主要由保守党的富有支持者拥有——将其描述为蓄意不尊重因和平主义足迹而死于该国的战争。

Holland was then, as now, the great emporium for all European goods; and by this regulation, British ships were hindered from loading in Holland the goods of any other European country.

荷兰当时和现在一样，是所有欧洲商品的大商场。根据这项规定，英国船只无法在荷兰装载任何其他欧洲国家的货物。