Well, these bizarre2 exceptions were each primarily the work of a single eccentric3 individual and in many cases took decades or even lifetimes to construct.

不过，下面这些异乎寻常的意外之作几乎每座都主要是一个奇人的个人杰作，其中很多的建造都耗时几十年(甚至是这些奇人的一生)。

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So small that it would never happen even within several lifetimes of shuffling.

所以这么小的几率也许我们洗上几辈子的牌也不一定能碰得到。

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But even if we don't run across it in our lifetimes, we can still think there is one out there, and we're just trying to get closer and closer to it.

但是尽管我们有生之年不会得到它，我们仍然可以说它是存在的。我们所做的就是不断接近它。

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And resentment invariably leads to brooding that can last days, years, decades, even entire lifetimes.

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Yet even once they've amassed more money than they could hope to spend in several lifetimes, they just don't quit working.

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