The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.

历史学家的工作是对必然性、偶然性和无伤大雅的情况加以强化和预示。

-- Charles Conrad Jr. 小查尔斯·康拉德