You have an elegy here, a beautiful and plangent lament for something or someone lost. And we have to ask ourselves, "Could this be a paradise lost?"

它变成了挽歌，一首优美的如泣如诉的挽歌，因为某些东西或某些人消失了，我们不得不问自己，这就是失乐园吗。

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Today's world, a lot of places left already sprinkler and farm cattle, leaving even plangent machine times.

今天的世界，许多地方早已离别了水车和耕牛，甚至正在离别轰鸣的机器时代。

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They swayed and sang faintly to the plangent music – Turc and Slav together – in a tableau of fairytale unity .

在一个童话般团结的戏剧性场面中，他们——土库曼人和斯拉夫人——伴随着凄切的音乐在摇摆和轻声歌唱。

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You have an elegy here, a beautiful and plangent lament for something or someone lost. And we have to ask ourselves, "Could this be a paradise lost?"

它变成了挽歌，一首优美的如泣如诉的挽歌,因为某些东西或某些人消失了，我们不得不问自己，这就是失乐园吗“

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But Gray takes these somewhat soiled and contrived narrative elements and shapes them into a plangent suspense thriller that's at once archetypal and subtly subversive.

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His testimony about how this happened in his own life is plangent and familiar, but he addles it a bit by insisting that the real damage is being done at the neurological level, that our children are having their brains altered by too much instant messaging and the like.

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It is not the keening and caterwauling I mind so much as the eerily human nature of the plangent cries, which can sound like anything from a baby crying to a couple of nightclub bouncers fighting in an alley.

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