The"Madding Crowd"conceals the deep sense of illusion and absurdity.

热闹喧嚣的场面下，蕴涵着浓重的虚幻感和荒诞意识。

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We feel a sense of illusion, because we are lacking in a state of mind or purpose.

我们之所以会产生一种虚幻之感，那是因为我们缺乏某种心境或者目标。

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In other words, our sense of time isn't just a perceptual illusion, but instead seems to regulate the pace of information processing in the brain.

换句话说，我们的时间观念不只是一个感性的幻觉，它似乎还能调节我们大脑的信息处理速度。

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So, it's motivated by a huge blindness about the racial history of the United States in any of its detail. That sense of the oneness, I think, points to why and how he makes that illusion, the oneness.

所以这是由对美国种族历史,及其细节部分的极大无知所推动的，这样的一种同一性，我想表明了他为什么及怎样产生了那一幻觉，那种同一性。

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Of course, this illusion flies in the face of common sense, to say nothing of the constitutional duty to provide for the common defense.

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Some people would even suggest those types are just being realists, that any sense of privacy on the Internet is an illusion anyway.

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Copperfield bought most of the pieces himself and had the good sense not to overdo the illusion.

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