Are the words you use uplifting or devastating?

你用的词语是成事还是败事？

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One of the marvels of being human is our ability to fill any event with uplifting or devastating significance.

人类令人惊叹的地方之一，就是我们能够赋予任何事情令人兴奋或者具有破坏性的定义。

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Is this where the prime minister might dash to hide in the event of some terrifying social meltdown or devastating military attack?

一旦发生什么恐怖的社会灾难或者毁灭性的军事袭击，首相会不会冲到那里躲起来呢？

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But there should not be war." One thing nearly all South Koreans agree on is the devastating human toll that all-out war would take on the peninsula,recalling - from direct experience or their education - that one and a half million civilians died during the three-year Korean War.

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So it is not anything like, even as one reads it in retrospect, a wholesale repudiation or even really a very devastating critique of Levi-Strauss.

所以即使是我们回过头来看，这也不是对列维观点的全面否认,更不是对他的毁灭性批判。

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In normal times David Cameron's criticism of Labour's economic record would have had to include some scathing personal criticism or devastating new statistics for it to get any coverage beyond a nib (news in brief).

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They could include, in no particular order of probability or potentially devastating impact on the stability of financial market, default by Greece, exit by Greece from the eurozone or a much more generous rescue deal.

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