The new generation of sculptors should thank Wang Keqing for his succession of the sculpture; otherwise Chinese modern sculpture in the bud could by no means bear a fatal disaster without successor.

新生代的雕塑家们，自当感谢王克庆承前启后的承传，否则刚刚萌芽的中国现代雕塑，绝对经不起一场致命的断层之灾。

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H. " describes with such despair; that had our demented diarist gone, in the fatal summer of 1947, to a competent psycho-pathologist, there would have been no disaster;"

假使在那个致命的1947年夏天，我们这位精神不正常的自白者去拜访了专职心理病理学者的话，书中的这一切灾难都不会发生；

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The spark is almost always related to deep mistrust of police combined with an incident like a beating, a natural disaster, or a fatal shooting.

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You'll recall from high school or college how Shakespeare frequently pushes the limits of comedy and tragedy, splicing farce into moments of calamity (the fool in King Lear, the clowns in Hamlet) and pulling back suddenly from near-fatal disaster in comedies (The Merchant of Venice, A Winter's Tale).

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