当某个事件打开了一个充满紊乱、残忍和恐惧的更加深刻的境界时，人们会措手不及。

It is unprepared when an event opens the door to a deeper realm of disorder, cruelty and horror.

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但我还是在面对我和朋友都哭了的午宴晚宴时，还有在面对告别派对上我最好的朋友脸上的模样时，都会觉得措手不及。

Still, I was unprepared for the many lunches and dinners where my friends and I cried? And for the look on my best friend's face at my going-away party.

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但我还是在面对我和朋友都哭了的午宴晚宴时，还有在面对告别派对上我最好的朋友脸上的模样时，都会觉得措手不及。

Still, I was unprepared for the many lunches and dinners where my friends and I cried-and for the look on my best friend's face at my going-away party.

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They can't imagine -they don't have the power of imagination to think what the next crisis will be like, so it catches them by surprise.

他们无法想象,他们根本想象不出,下次危机爆发是什么样,所以危机发生时他们措手不及

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Well, the reason for thinking otherwise, the reason for not being utterly dismissive of this suggestion, is that when people get ill, terminally ill, it often seems to take them by surprise.

其他的想法产生的原因，人们没有完全摒弃这个假设的原因，是当人们得病，病入膏肓时，这通常让人措手不及。

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