In SCHOOLS across the eastern Mediterranean, children are still learning about the past of the fascinating places where they live through the distorting lens of modern nationalism.

在遍布地中海东部的学校中，孩子们仍透过扭曲的现代民族主义镜头下，了解他们所居住的这片神奇土地的历史。

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If a large object passes in front of a more distant background star, it may act as a lens, bending and distorting the light of that star so that it may appear to brighten significantly.

如果一个体积足够大的星体从一个距离很远的恒星前面经过，那么会产生透镜效果，使那个恒星的光线产生弯曲或变形，这样就能很清楚的看到这个星体。

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One might say that the cluster has acted like a giant magnifying glass, or gravitational lens, in space - focusing, magnifying and distorting the images of the galaxy.

可以说，集群已采取行动，像一个巨大的放大镜，或重力透镜，在太空-聚焦，放大和歪曲的形象银河。

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Even individual truths will be seen through the distorting lens of a false world view.

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It says something about the political class today that the experience of having served in the military is such a rarity that it is seen, not infrequently, through a distorting lens.

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The most distorted galaxies, therefore, were those twice as far from Earth as the gravitational lens distorting them.

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