According to van Wolferen, the postwar Japanese have a collective blind spot, a mental "forbidden zone" about Japanese history from approximately 1920 to 1945.

依据范沃尔弗伦所述，战后日本人有一个集体盲点，一个对日本大约1920年至1945年之间历史的思维禁区。

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As the story unfolds, he's thrust into the storm of history and joins a small group of expatriates in setting up a refugee zone, which ended up protecting as many as 200, 000 people.

随着故事的展开，深入到历史的风暴中的他毅然加入了一群亡命国外者的队伍，建立起一个难民安全区，成功挽救约20万人的性命。

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The entire universe was, therefore, a nonhabitable zone for perhaps the first few billion years of its 13.7-billion-year history.

在宇宙一百三十七亿年的历史中，大概在前几个十亿年里，整个宇宙都无法让生命生存。

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