He drew his stories from the classics of Western literature , including Dostoyevski's The Idiot (1951), Gorky's The Lower Depths (1957), and King Lear (Ran in 1985).

而在剧本方面，他喜欢改编西方经典文学著作，包括陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》（1951），高尔基的《在底层》（1957）以及《李尔王》（即1985年的《乱》）。

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Since the Depression, a constant theme of business humor has been the fear of falling into the lower depths of ruin, the fine line between the penthouse and selling apples on the street.

自三十年代的大萧条以来，有关生意场的幽默题材一直是：人们担心自己会跌入毁灭的深渊，住在公寓顶层的破屋子里，每天走到大街上卖苹果。

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Fears that Europe's largest economy is contracting sharply are likely to prove correct and this will drag the euro-area down to lower depths.

对欧洲最大的经济体急剧收缩的担忧有可能被证实，这将会使欧元区经济向更底层滑去。

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The team is hopeful that at lower depths, life might yet be found.

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Recall that Wal-Mart was badly hit during the depths of the recession, a period that weakened its core of lower-income customers the worst.

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