Yet for a couple of centuries it was the model of form and inspired classicists everywhere.

然而在几个世纪的时间里，它曾一直是形态的楷模，激励了世界各地的古典主义者。

Snobbish Western classicists who called Byzantium a poor substitute for ancient Greece may have missed the point.

那些假装内行的西方古典学家称拜占庭是古希腊可怜的替代品，其实他们错了。

But I think climax is a great example of those smarty-pants classicists back in the Renaissance dragging Latin and Greek words into English.

但是我认为climax是一个很好的例子说明那些文艺复兴时期的自作聪明的古典主义者是如何将拉丁和希腊语中的词加入英语中的。

From the classicists' viewpoint, the society of modernity seems to be the chaotic ruins caused by the disintegration of the classical society which was monistic and hierarchically ordered.

在古典主义者眼中，现代性社会仿佛是古典一元等级大序社会解体后留下的废墟，其中充满了混乱与无序。