Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completenessSimon SchamaDead Certainties
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each otherPhilip GuedallaSupers and Supermen
historian: a broad-gauge gossipAmbrose BierceThe Devil's Dictionary
ADJECTIVE➤distinguished, eminent, great, leading, noted, respected傑出的史學家;偉大的史學家;著名的史學家;受敬重的史學家◇a talk given by an eminent social historian一位傑出的社會歷史學家所作的報告➤serious嚴肅的史學家◇No serious historian today accepts this theory.當今任何一位嚴肅的史學家都不會接受這種理論。➤academic, professional學院派史學家;專業史學家▸➤amateur業餘史學家▸➤official官方史學家◇the official historian of the United States Army美國陸軍的官方史學家➤presidential (especially NAmE) 研究總統的史學家▸➤contemporary, future當代的/未來的歷史學家◇The oldest tradition goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe.最古老的傳統可以追溯到當代史學家約翰・福克斯。◇What will future historians make of the late 20th century?未來的歷史學家將會如何看待 20 世紀晚期 ?➤ancient, medieval, modern古代/中世紀/現代史學家◇She is a writer as well as a distinguished modern historian.她不但是著名的現代史學家,還是位作家。➤local地方誌學者▸➤architectural, art, church, cultural, economic, film, legal, literary, military, political, social, etc.建築、藝術、教會、文化、經濟、電影、法律、文學、軍事、政治、社會等史學家▸➤revisionist修正主義歷史學家◇Revisionist historians have questioned the accepted version of events.修正主義歷史學家對這些事件公認的說法提出了質疑。