This is a modern city, not a scene of fragmentation or despair, but a rising city of desire.

这是一座现代化的城市，并不是破碎或绝望的场景，而是一座在上升的渴望之城。

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But do not despair entirely.

但不要完全绝望。

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Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.

命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。

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This is the modern city, not as a scene of fragmentation or despair, but rather a place of ascent and aspiration.

这是一座现代化的城市，并不是破碎或绝望的场景，而是一座在上升的渴望之城。

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Mind you, he ascribes to authorial intention the most amazingly outrageous things that other critics threw up their hands in despair about, but nevertheless it is for him always still an appeal to authorial intention.

他认为写作意图,十分重要,但是被其他批评家忽视了，但是写作意图,十分吸引他。

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There are those, like myself, who agree that we do need to do something but despair at anyone ever actually doing the right things.

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But now despair about Germany and the core of Europe is setting in, and the consensus suddenly has shifted.

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But I despair of European leaders and their inability to even begin the discussion about how to rebuild opportunity here.

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