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They became aware that the late 18th-century cult of sensibility, which had championed untrammelled emotion as the fount of altruism, could easily spill over into self-indulgent histrionics; the sincerity they valued as the highest good could drift into s
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他们开始认识到,18世纪后期对敏感顶礼膜拜,将未驾驭的情感视为利他主义之源泉,却往往过于汹涌而沦为个人放纵的表演;而真诚----曾被视为世间最美好品质----却滑向了自欺欺人和自私的泥潭。 |
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They became experienced at finding underground springs.
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他们对寻找地下泉水有经验。 |
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They became hysterical after the accident.
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事故发生后他们变得歇斯底里。 |
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They became the first April fools.
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他们就成为第一批“四月愚人”。 |
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They became unemployed through no fault of their own.
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他们的失业不是由于自身的过失造成的。 |
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They become cynical and think that programming is just a way of making money.
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他们变的愤世忌俗且认为写程式只不过是赚钱的一种方法而已。 |
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They become esoteric enclaves, “hermetically sealed” (in the sense classically associated with the Hermetic corpus of secret lore) to all but those who have been properly initiates into their mysteries.
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次级共同体变成只有内行人才懂的领域,对于被引入其奥秘的人之外是与外界隔绝密封的(在意义上和秘密学问的密封资料相关)。 |
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They become objects of perverse beauty beneath his hand; their bodies remade in fashions that they have no power to dictate.
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最后,他亲手将他们变成了形状鬼魅的生物;重塑后的身体远远超乎他们的想象。 |
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They become self-aware... and vicious.
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他们有了意识,并发狂了。 |
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They become the victims of a murderer.
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他们成了凶手的牺牲品。 |
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They bedded the plants in good soil.
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他们把这些植物埋入沃土中。 |