Some young workers at Foxconn, feeling alone and desperate and seeing no hope for the future, have taken their own lives.

一些富士康的年轻员工，感到孤单、寂寞、绝望、无助，他们看不到未来的希望，才会去冒生命的危险。

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DESPERATE for revenue to pay for vast spending plans, America is targeting a group that it, alone among developed countries, brings under its: citizens and firms living and operating abroad.

因为急需财政收入来支付庞大的花销计划，美国将把目标仅仅定在发达国家。将那些居住在发达国家的海外居民和经营的企业纳入它的税收保护伞。

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At 11pm there usually remained behind only the real, the desperate gamblers-persons for whom, at spas, there existed nothing but roulette, and who went there for that alone.

在晚上11点钟的时候，留下来的往往是那些真正的，孤注一掷的赌徒，也就是那些还在泡的，但也只能泡轮盘的人，和只冲这个而来的人。

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If your aging parent must live alone, has few social contacts and never gets a hug, you can imagine how desperate he or she might get.

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