The film is about all the bad things that happen to a common man for no apparent reason.

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They share those things in common, which is not to say that a country like France wasn't urbanized.

这是他们两国的共同点,但也不是说,像法国这样的国家没有城市化

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Then from these beginnings, engineers transformed life in the twentieth century: a lot of things started in the twentieth century and became common place.

从此开始,工程师们改变了二十世纪的生活,有很多东西在二十世纪发明并得到普及

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