Why rewrite history books - to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative for the good of the nation, asks David Cannadine in his Point of View column.

为什么要重写历史？为了国家的发展，突出正面影响，排除负面影响。大卫·康纳汀在他的观点专栏中这样问道。

But across eastern Europe, the Baltic republics and the Ukraine, the drive to rewrite history is being used to relativise Nazi crimes and rehabilitate collaborators.

但是在东欧，波罗的海三国和乌克兰改写历史的积极性被用来弱化纳粹罪行和恢复合作者的名誉。

If you are at a low point in your marriage, be extra careful not to give in to the tendency to rewrite history and convince yourself that the positives were never there in the first place.

如果你不看好自己的婚姻的话，就应该极其地小心，以避免历史重演，同时要确信那些美好的往事不会再有了。