It's dangerous to abruptly intervene in the evolution of human institutions.

在人文制度的演变中,突然的人为干预是很危险的

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But abruptly, fiendishly, the tender pattern of nudity I had adored would be transformed into the disgusting lamp-lit bare arm of a man in his underclothes reading his paper by the open window in the hot, damp, hopeless summer night.

然而突然，糟糕得很，我崇拜的那副美好的裸体,投入了台灯下一双男人赤膊的肩膀，他穿着内衣裤,读着报纸，靠在敞开的窗边，沉浸在,炎热，潮湿，绝望的夏夜里。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We had an extraordinarily high price-to-earnings ratio representing a lot of optimism in the '20s for the stock market and then it corrected and went abruptly downward-- that was The Great Depression.

在二十年代,市盈率高得离奇,表现了当时人们对股票市场的乐观,当其得到修正并突然下跌时,大萧条便开始了

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