I visited orphanages in Eastern Europe 20 years ago, where the conditions were scandalous visions of hell but this is a world away.

20年前我在东欧参观过孤儿院，那里景象凄惨，简直像地狱，但这儿是另外一个世界。

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The world is wide, and there is Heaven also, and Hell, and that dim twilight house that lies between.

世界如此广大，有天堂、有地狱，还有位于两者之间的那座昏暗的房子。

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The world is not going to hell in a handcart. Things are not worse than they were 25 years ago.

世界局势还没有糟到无法挽救，现在的情势也并不比25年前更糟糕。

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In particularly blunt criticism, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek of the Czech Republic, which currently holds the EU presidency, blasted the Obama administration's stimulus plan as "a way to hell" and a threat to world financial markets.

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They're not actually present in the real world of Milton's hell, or if it's a pagan god who's mentioned, Milton will tell us that the pagan god was just an early manifestation of one of the fallen angels.

事实上他们没有在弥尔顿笔下的地狱中出现，或者作为异教的神被提及，弥尔顿将告诉我们那些异教的神只是堕落天使中,一名天使早期的表象。

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The advanced economies are taking the rest of the world to hell in a handbasket, as a Goldman Sachs report to its hedge fund clients famous, or infamously said earlier this year, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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The discovery that fewer people are victims of violence can thwart cynicism among compassion-fatigued news readers who might otherwise think that the dangerous parts of the world are irredeemable hell holes.

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For Goldman Sachs, the world is going to hell in a hand basket, according to a report they wrote for hedge fund clients obtained by the Wall Street Journal last month.

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