前几代人因为预算有限，生活消费品供应不足。当他们买到什么新鲜玩意，就会自我陶醉飘飘然起来，而今面对泛滥的选项，人们已经变得麻木不仁。

This excess also numbs us to the heady pleasure felt by previous generations when they bought something new in an era when budgets were leaner and consumer goods in shorter supply.

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但是，他对自己还是不满意，他觉得现在这样对战争的记录变得“平凡，几近于平庸，”他说：“社会对关于矛盾冲突的图片已经感到麻木了。”

Still, he found himself unsatisfied, feeling that coverage of war was becoming “mundane, almost ordinary, ” he says. “Society was numb to the images of conflict.”

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他说，“如果你每天做同一件事，你会变得麻木，但我已经习惯了这种工作。”

“If you do the same thing all day long you can become numb, ” he said. “But I’ve gotten used to doing this type of work.”

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