好处二：在冥想中，你可以找到这样一条通路，使你重获力量去掌控你的情感，你的行为模式乃至那个成就了现在的你的整体环境。

The second benefit: During the contemplation, you’ve gone some way towards recapturing the force of your emotions, your patterns, and the circumstances that led up to it.

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但是这种模式只有在你掌控一些基本条件的情况下才行得通。

But that model works only if you master a couple of basics.

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事实上，这种出现的模式只是双方失控的拉锯战之一，因为沿海城镇掌控权易主几乎与钟摆一样规律的摆荡。

In fact, the only emerging pattern is one of wildly see-sawing fortunes, as coastal towns change hands with almost metronomic regularity.

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