All I want to stress is that my discovery of her was a fatal consequence of that "princedom by the sea" in my tortured past.

我想强调的是，我对她的发现,乃是在扭曲的过去里建筑的那座海边王国的致命后果。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The legends, just stories from generation to generation, changed, and molded, but nonetheless, retaining certain elements of the earlier tradition.

那些传奇,仅仅是一些代代相传的故事,它们被改编,被扭曲,尽管这样,仍保留了一些早期的传统元素

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Distorting price signals , making it impossible for the market to respond as it otherwise would have .

扭曲价格信息，让市场无法正常反应,无法在正常市场机制下运行。

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