人是世界的缩影。

Man is the world's epitome.

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在巴塞罗那成为世界大都市和地中海最具活力的城市之前，身着传统服装的叠人塔似乎是一个更安逸的时代的缩影。

Dressed in their traditional costumes, the castellers seem to epitomize an easier time, before Barcelona became a world metropolis and the Mediterranean's most dynamic city.

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过去十年中，小说内容走向了专门化的发展趋势：特写，缩影，微小世界。

The trend in fiction over the past decade has been toward specialization: the closeup, the miniature, the microcosm.

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It's a microcosm. It is a distillation or quintessence.

是真实世界的缩影，也是精华和本质的东西。

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