Animals have their egos but they are still innocent, not so violent.

动物有它们的自我，但它们仍是无害的，并不那么暴烈。

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The merit of his favourite, we say, is not so great, his misfortune is not so dreadful, his provocation is not so extraordinary, as to justify so violent a passion.

我们认为，他最喜爱的事物，其优点并没有那么突出，他个人的命运也并没有那么悲惨，造成他的情绪的诱因并不是非同寻常的，这些都不足以成为他如此强烈地表达自己情绪的理由。

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The paradox in Sonny's violent nature was that he could not hit a woman and had never done so.

桑儿残暴的性格中的另一面乃是他不忍心打击女人，也真的从来没有打击过女人；

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They are simply to pursue the same objective in a stealthy, not so much non-violent as pre-violent, fashion.

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