Newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle were chronicling their own doom.

像《旧金山纪事报》这样的报纸也在见证自己的衰落。

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They're just like eggs hurled against stone; they're heading for their doom.

鸡蛋怎能碰得过石头，还不是自寻死路。

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Even a dropped shopping bag, a broken jar of Prego, would send them into a funk, like: doom, doom, of course, isn't this the way it always goes for us?

即使是一个购物袋掉在地上，或者一个罐头瓶被打碎，都会让他们陷入慌恐之中，好像在说：完了，完了，肯定完了，因为我们这辈子不就是注定要倒霉的吗？

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Even so, his conclusions about our near-certain doom have him grinning like a know-it-all at math camp, an arm waving eagerly in the air as he beats the other kids to the grim answer.

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