1993年，他曾目睹员工们风风火火地走下楼梯，他知道这花的时间太长了。

He had watched employees wind down the staircase in 1993, and he knew it took too long.

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她心中的火曾隐在它自己的灰底下燃烧了一段时间。但是她看得很清楚，它只是燃烧得更深入一些，现在重又冒出来了，把她整个人裹在火焰里了。

The fire had been smothered, and had smouldered for a time, but she saw all plainly now; it had but made headway, and now it had burst forth afresh, and had inflamed her whole being.

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多年来，绿色意识人士曾声称，适应----应对气候变化，而不是改变它---有点像扑灭泰坦尼克号上的火：毫无疑问，人人都想把火灭了，但关键还是要改变航线。

For years, greens said adaptation—coping with climate change, rather than stopping it—was a bit like putting out a fire on the Titanic: desirable, no doubt, but the main thing was to change course.

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If you ever read the Book of Apocalypse--or Revelation -you know it's hellfire and brimstone, the day of judgment, damnation--election into the group of the blessed, and so on.

如果你曾读过《启示录》或《天意》,你知道那些地狱火和硫磺,审判日,诅咒,获选受到保佑的人们,诸如此类

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