You can bend over and look at your reflection, or you can jump in thrash around, see it what it feels like, what it smells like.

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I thought that the city was then living a kind of life which was unjust and that they would bend it to a just one and so administer it more justly.

我以为当时,城邦的生活不公,但他们会将它转变成公正的,并更公正的管理它。

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It might bend and bow, that is it's not the forces of nature like the movement of the river that's knocking the bridge down, but it's just the failure of these materials over time, that they don't last as long as they might.

这桥可能会折断,不一定是洪水这样的自然灾害,导致了桥梁的坍塌,可能只是因为建桥的材料老化,这种材料没有那么持久耐用

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