The earthquake displaces a large amount of water in the ocean.

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Jacob Milgrom has argued that there's a kind of Archimedean principle at work here: every sin creates an impurity that encroaches upon the realm of holiness and displaces a certain amount of holiness.

雅各布·米尔格罗姆认为,这里存在着一种阿基米德原理：,每一种罪孽都会造成不洁,这种不洁逐渐蚕食神圣,慢慢取代神圣的位置。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Or, he doesn't say it; his autobiographical hero says it: "Any genuinely new trend in art is a knight's move, a change of shadows, a shift that displaces the mirror." Okay.

或者他没讲，他是在自传《英雄》中提到了：,“艺术上任何一个全新的趋势都是迂回前进的，是一种影子的改变，一个转移镜子的变化“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The dream work simultaneously condenses and displaces that which it is somehow or another struggling to make manifest as its object of desire.

梦运作时，凝缩和移置同时进行,这样一来，梦试图展示愿望的过程,就显得有些纠结了。

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