"We're probably,it looks now, like we'll continue to bump along maybe even have some bad months and unemployment is not going to recover as it has in some past recessions."

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

It's as though the ordinary earthly objects, we bump into them or they bump into us, and they get us to look upwards to the heavenly Platonic realm.

好像这些寻常的世俗的事物，不管是我们遇到他们还是反过来，这些事物让我们向上看到了,神圣理想的国度。

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"There's been a bump in the road here, but it will be good to get back to the talks there will be good days and bad days, as there always are in these sorts of negotiations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05