每当出现可怕的念头时，我们总会通过谈话来转移一下注意力，这样我们才能承受下去。

For every dire intention there was a correspondent distraction that enabled each person to keep going on.

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然而对这两种人来说，都需要换一换脑子，改变一下气氛，转移一下注意力，这是不可缺少的。

Yet to both classes, the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential.

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