You can learn from a disastrous party how to give a good one, from an ill-chosen first house what to look for in a second.

你能够从一次很糟糕的晚会中学会如何举办一个好的晚会，从第一次错误挑房中学会第二次你要寻找什么样的房子。

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You can learn from a disastrous party how to give a good one, from an ill-chosen first house what to look for in a second.

你可以从一次极糟的晚会中学会如何举办一次成功的晚会，从第一次不当的选房中学到下次选房时要注意些什么。

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The bulk of the movie shows a disastrous wedding party and its aftermath, in which the bride (Kirsten Dunst) and her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg) seek, without success, to fend off the predations of anxiety and sadness.

NEWYORKER: Melancholia

The most spectacular evidence of this is the disastrous damage the Republican Party did to itself in California in 1994 with its support of Proposition 187.

ECONOMIST: Special-interest groups

Yet it is hard to see how anyone will be able to deny that politically the war has been disastrous for Bush and the Republican Party.

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