He was one of the owners of the pleasure club whose members cavorted high above ill-fated Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

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In other words, chance is already fated. The thing that stands for randomness in this book, the thing that looks like ordinary detail, has already been arranged to give you artistic pleasure.

换言之，机遇已经是命中注定的，这代表了,书中的那些随意安排，那些看起来普通的细节，其实已经据安排给大家一种美的享受。

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But when it came to treason, he was less likely to be merciful, as the case of Alexis, his ill-fated son would demonstrate.

只是对于背叛者,他是绝不手软的,他那不幸的儿子阿列克思就是一个例证

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We stayed at an airport hotel in Moscow on December 23, flew from Moscow to Amsterdam on the December 24 and took the fated flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on December 25, a day late.

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The question is why it staged the ill-fated raid in the first place.

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The other options, of working for a charity or an environmental task force, may suffer from the same low expectations as the ill-fated Community Programme in the 1980s.

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