"Dear Beatrice," he said, "our fate is not so terrible."

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The chaste poet was unable to pass uninjured in that wild surrounding waste. This violence was so terrible that not even his mother, the muse Calliope, could save him.

这端正老实的诗人无法在这野蛮的进攻中,全身而退，巴克坎忒斯的暴行是如此可怕,就连俄耳甫斯的母亲，身为缪斯之一的克莱俄帕也救不了他。

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But one argument that can be made is that things things were so terrible and so out of control in the earlier period that the strengthening of the state is something that people saw as beneficial.

然而有这样一个观点,在动荡不定的战争年代,一个极权国家是有利于国家的发展的

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You got an extra hint here in terms of the order, so even if you had just forgotten what I said, sometimes it's not a terrible idea just to put it in the order it's written, that can give you a lot of clues as well.

其实大家还可以发现一个额外的提示，因此即使你忘了我刚才说的，有时候直接按照这个顺序,排列也不失为一个办法，这也可以给你很多提示。

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But it's all different degrees of terrible, if you will, because so many people in the population share that biological vulnerability and when the environment changes, we have the problems.

只要愿意,这造成的恐慌程度是不同的,因为在人群中有很多这样的群体,他们都有这种生物易损性,当环境发生变化时,就会出现问题

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The way to do terrible things--One way to do terrible things is to lose yourself so you're not an individual anymore but another way to do terrible things is so that the person you're doing it to isn't an individual.

使人变坏的其中一股力量,就是抹杀自己的个性，你不再是自己,而使人变坏的另一股力量,就是抹杀你行恶的对象的个性。

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On the other hand, if somebody says, "Somebody call the police," well, I got things to do and so diffusion of responsibility explains both when we're willing to do terrible things and also when we're willing to help people who are in trouble.

但是如果有人叫，“来人，快报警”,“我有事要忙”,责任分散,既能解释我们在什么情况下会干坏事,也能解释我们在什么情况下会帮别人。

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