The blind fury here is the mythological figure Atropos; this is the Fate that cuts the slender thread by which our lives dangle.

这里的盲目暴怒是指神话人物阿特洛波斯；这是命运剪断了生命悬线的细线。

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The spider hung suspended on its slender thread.

蜘蛛悬吊在它细长的丝上。

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Two days ago, climbing on a spire of rock, she had spied water to the south, a slender thread that glittered briefly as the sun was going down.

就在两天前，她在岩石的尖顶攀爬时发现了一条指南的水源，在落日的余晖下闪烁着一丝微光。

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The blind Fury here is the mythological figure Atropos; this is the Fate that cuts the slender thread by which our lives dangle.

这里的暴怒是指神话人物阿特洛波斯;,命运剪断了维系生命的细线。

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As to the West Nile Virus theory, I understand it is connected with a phenomenon of mass bird deaths that was noticed in the area of Babylon in the Spring of 323, which seems to me a slender thread of evidence.

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