The break-down of law and order could result in killing on a massive scale.

法律和秩序的崩溃可能会导致大规模的杀戮。

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Just like the way you would give up smoking you can break the habit and get from a place where you're always feeling down to where you're in the neutral and positive ends of the emotional scale.

就像你戒烟的过程一样，你也能够打破那个负面思维的习惯，从总是为沮丧所困的境况进步到情绪天平的中点和“快乐”那一端。

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The public is able to digest these "follies" easier than larger buildings, the latter of which may be controversial for their break with tradition on such an imposing scale.

对比起较大型的建筑，公众能够更容易地消化这些“华而不实”的建筑，因为前者可能会因为其在壮观的规模上与传统的矛盾造成争议。

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And archaeology supports this picture of merging of peoples, a picture of the merging of peoples, rather than conquest or even large-scale immigration, because the new settlements in this period show such continuity with the past, not a complete break, not the initiation of something radically new.

考古学肯定了民族的融合，多个民族相融合的图景，而不是征服或者是大规模的移民，因为这一时期新的定居表明,与过去的连续继承，而不是完全的断裂，不是完全的新的开始。

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None of these criticisms, however, would justify a full-scale break-up.

ECONOMIST: Banking reform

He said president Obama was not talking of a full-scale break-up of the banks but wanted to "separate retail deposit-taking from large-scale proprietary trading, large internal hedge funds and large internal private equity funds and I agree with him".

BBC: Treasury questions

The BBC's Paul Welsh in the Macedonian capital, Skopje, says Western diplomats expect some low level violations of the ceasefire, and the real test will be whether any new large scale confrontations break out.

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