Where his uppity energy once inspired the country’s voters, today it seems merely to annoy.

他那曾经盛气凌人的傲气曾经激励着该国的投票者，如今那看起来令人反感。

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In the seventh grade, I traveled to Wuzhen, where Prince Xiao Tong from the Liang Dynasty once lived, and I was inspired to write a wuxia story based on him.

七年级的时候，我去了梁朝太子萧统曾居住过的乌镇，我受到了启发，想以他为原型写一个武侠故事。

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What came next surprised, inspired, and frustrated me all at once.

接下来发生的，令我在一瞬间感到了惊奇，鼓舞和疑惑。

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Today it's hard to believe that Hurwitz once inspired fear as a corporate raider who survived multiple dustups with regulators.

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It would be quite a comedown for a technology that once inspired such high hopes, but anything is better than nothing.

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It took seven years of travel and research to create this magnificent history of the genus tulipa, its 1, 200 species and the financial madness it once inspired.

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