Venice is approaching the dread status of living museum, with a population now below 60,000.

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The metropolis, well, it's a place of ambivalence, a place of promise and of threat, of exultation and also of dread.

都市是一个自相矛盾的地方，既有希望，又有威胁，喜悦与恐惧相伴而存在。

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But at the same time the Market Revolution is going to bring a certain sense of anxiety, even dread, even despair.

同时市场革命将,带来某种焦虑,甚至是可怕的和绝望的

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