One of these urges had to do with creating a state of peace in the midst of turbulence, a "still point of the turning world," to borrow a phrase from T. S. Eliot.

这些诉求之一与在动荡中创造一种平和的状态相关，借用 T。 S。 Eliot 的话来说，就是“旋转世界中的静止点”。

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Why have these "islands of conscious power" survived in the surrounding "ocean of unconscious co-operation", to borrow a phrase from D.H. Robertson, an economist?

借用经济学家d.h罗伯逊的一句话，‘企业这个有意为之的孤岛，是如何在市场这片自发合作的海洋中存活的呢？’

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To parody is to borrow a phrase whose meaning lies on one plane of intelligence to insert it into the context of a lower plane; an attempt to compound two incommensurable imaginative creations.

所谓“揶揄式模仿”是把寓意于高层次的句塞到层次较低的上下文里，以其达到将两个相差悬殊的意向混淆起来的目的。

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Back in the 1960s, Americans feared the "terrifying efficiency" of the centrally planned Soviet economy, to borrow a no-joke famous phrase from the British politician Richard Crossman.

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