少数联军拍下的照片和幸存者的证词在脑海里一遍又一遍地闪现，到头来竟成了陈腐的画面了。

The few images derived from Allied photographs and the testimony of survivors flashed on the mind again and again, until they froze into cliches.

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我决定不再像我母亲当年鞭策我那样，去鞭策我的孩子，不再用“陈腐”的老一套，去要求他们必须出人头地。

I decided not to drive my children, as my mother had driven me, with those corrupt old demands that they amount to something.

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这有可能是因为我们扮演的陈腐老套地性别角色。

But that could be due to those tired old gender roles we're cast in.

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