一个挫折，结果证明，但不是悲剧。

A setback, it turned out, but no tragedy.

youdao

我们上了报纸，三年之后还有关于此报道。但不幸地是，悲剧随后便发生了。

We were in the papers, we're still in the news three years later, but, unfortunately, something tragic happened right after.

youdao

But the Greek tragic view does not take either of these routes, which I regard as a relatively easy escape from the problem compared to the way the Greeks got stuck.

但希腊的悲剧意识对这两种套路都不接受,在我看,相对而言,与其困扰于此,古希腊人更愿意逃避这个问题

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