Life at the mansion was lavish and lascivious—a Puritan's ninth circle of hell.

这座宅邸的生活奢华而淫乱——一位清教徒的第九层地狱。

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Jean Valjean had fallen from one circle of hell into another.

冉阿让从地狱的一个圈子掉进了另一个圈子。

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In that case, Bernanke has only moved us to a different circle of hell.

如果是这样，伯南克不过是将我们拖向了另一层地狱。

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The first is that one day Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will be ridden out of town on a rail, joining Arthur Burns in that special circle of hell reserved for monetary debauchers.

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Much of what is sold under the moniker "bagel" where I live is as bready and dry as toast before being toasted, which it must be to become palatable. (With those words, bagel cognoscenti will understand that I have just condemned these specimens to the same circle of hell reserved for blueberry bagels.) The new trend should be my salvation, but alas, it leaves me cold.

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