Tom was trembling from head to foot with excitement and a sense of the hopelessness of the situation.

汤姆由于激动和对这个情形感到绝望，全身都在发抖。

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In both fiction and reality, then, you simultaneously make sense of the situation from both the character's perspective and from your own.

无论是在小说中，还是在现实中，你都会同时从人物的角度和你自己的角度来审视整个局面。

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But in trying to make sense of a complex situation, most commentators have glossed over the varying demands of the opposition's different elements.

但大部分评论者在试图弄清目前的复杂情况时，都忽视了反对派阵营中不同派别的不同要求。

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Khabure said that her best sense of the situation is that the LRA's original objectives were long ago hijacked by the numerous outside groups who benefited from the region's instability and began supporting Kony's rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

"Manifest destiny,and so forth. And I think most of the world probably feels it is in the same situation as Astrix and his village Gaullois in that we can identify with that sense of wanting to hold out and resist against the encroaching powers.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Can we please stop and think and make sense of the situation and get our way out of it.

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He's been telling reporters his views at the Pentagon, and you get a sense of the complexity of the situation when you hear how Petraeus starts with the problem, offers some optimism, but then qualifies it all with what's still going wrong.

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Phil was trying to make sense of a very complex situation to which there are no easy answers, but which concerns very many people in this country.

BBC: Phil Collins, former Bristol UKIP Chairman