in light of sth.中等

Remember that in light of whatever the problem the old system solved — or, maybe, has failed to solve in recent memory — it was a great idea at the time.

记住，无论旧系统解决了什么问题——或者，也许是近来没能解决什么问题——在当时它都是个好主意。

Russell Gray at the University of Auckland and his colleagues consider the evolution of grammars in the light of two previous attempts to find universality in language.

奥克兰大学的拉塞尔·格雷及其同事参照此前两次寻找语言普遍性的尝试，来考察语法的演变。