题目内容：

英语翻译
怎么翻译：While there are almost as many definitions of history as there are historians,modern practice most closely conforms to one that sees history as the attempt to recreate and explain the significant events of the past.

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while there are almost as many definitions of history as there are historians的意思就是一千个人眼中有一千个哈姆雷特,每一个历史学家都有自己的不同看法.
而主句中的modern practice可以翻译成现代的惯例.
the one 指代前面的definition.
整句翻译：尽管对于有多少个历史的定义就如有多少个历史学家那么多,但是现代的惯例（现代的关于历史的定义）还是紧密地遵守了那一个能够重现和解释过去重大事件的定义.