這章節從頭到尾我都覺得旁枝末節廢話一堆，一整個昏昏欲睡，殊不知最後一段直接升華了

This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these details, which are wrongly called trivial, — there are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation, — are useful.

It is of the physiognomy of the years that the physiognomy of the centuries is composed.

這些雜亂無章，就是一八一七年還依稀殘存的事情，就連那一年如今也被人遺忘了。歷史一向忽視所有這類有特色的事情，這也在所難免，畢竟歷史終將被無窮無盡所侵佔。然而，這些細節還是有用處的，人們總是不恰當地把這些稱為小事，其實人類並無小事，正如植物沒有小葉一樣。世世代代的面貌，正是由歲歲年年的表情組合而成的。

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