Keeping your bearings, he writes, is "all but impossible" in a country that is changing so fast.

承受所有，他写到，在这里“根本做不到”，因为这个国家的变化太快了。

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Finally, he writes his definitions, following the hard-and-fast rule that each definition must be based on what the quotations in front of him reveal about the meaning of the word.

这时他应严格遵循一条规则：每个定义都必须依据他面前的揭示该词词义的引文。

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