每个夏天，这个平静的小镇都涌入大批的观光客。

Every summer, this peaceful town gets invaded by tourists.

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这个平静的郊区没有什么异常的情况，除了那些消失不见的房客。

Nothing in this peaceful suburb was out of place, except for its missing tenants.

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有时，失败实际上可能是胜利。让我们从这条河豚鱼开始。它在非洲坦桑尼亚这个平静的河流三角洲中做着自己的事。

Sometimes, a defeat can really be a victory. Let's begin with this puffer fish. Minding its own business in this calm river delta in Tanzania, Africa.

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It's a little bit like Aristotle's idea of catharsis, which can be understood in a variety of ways, but Milton at the end of Samson Agonistes understands it in one way when he says, Now we have as a result of this tragedy "calm of mind, all passion spent."

这有点像亚里士多德的精神发泄法理论，我们可以通过各种方法来理解，但是米尔顿在《力士参孙》一书的结尾,有另一种理解，他写道，这个悲剧使我们拥有了,“平静的精神，耗尽的热情“

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