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| 81. | And fighting the battle of life is fighting against fearful odds, too. There are giants and dragons in every age, and the golden casket that they guard is not so easy to win as it appears in the story books. |
| 每个时代都存在世人、苍龙之类的庞然大物，它们所守护的金子根本不可能像小说里描写的那样会被轻易拿走。 |
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| 82. | As they drew near the island seemed to lift from the sea, and the air was so clear that they could already distinguish the rocks heaped on one another, like cannon balls in an arsenal, with green bushes and trees growing in the crevices. |
| 当他们接近那个岛的时候，它象是从海底里冒出来的一个庞然大物，透过明净天际下的薄暮余辉，他们辨得出岩石一块一块地堆积在一起，象一座弹药库里的炮弹一样； |
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| 83. | The massive animal has been spotted in the Hudson River at least three times in the last week— first off the Chelsea and Harlem sections of Manhattan, then to the north in Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County. |
| 在上周，人们至少3次在哈德逊河里看到这个庞然大物，前两次见它在曼哈顿地区的切尔西和哈莱姆两个地区，之后见它又跑到了位置更靠北的威斯切斯特县的斯利皮洼地内。 |
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| 84. | As with fiction, the weakness has been partly obscured. Though the Chinese do not have a novel such as War and Peace, they have many lengthy and coarse works that at times can be strange, ambiguous or even mysterious. It is a blank -- a real blank. |
| 在小说方面，弱点因受到遮掩而不很醒目——我们诚然没有《战争与和平》，但毕竟也产生了虽有粗滥之嫌却也莽莽苍苍的庞然大物，毕竟也产生了足够魔幻、足够暧昧、足够奇特的作品。 |
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| 85. | Having dropped (back in 1990) a plan to build the world's biggest ice-breaker, the Canadians may also have to seek Russian help next time they need to carve out a path to the North Pole: even the patrol boats ordered up by Mr Harper this month won't match Russia's leviathans. |
| 由于（1990年）撤销了一项建造世界上最大的破冰船的计划，下一次加拿大人需要开辟一条通向北极的道路时，可能也不得不寻求俄国人的帮助：即便是本月哈珀下令开赴前线的巡逻艇也比不上俄国人的庞然大物。 |
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| 86. | Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk, then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man. |
| 如若用剃刀就可以开采出花岗岩，用丝线即能系泊位船只，那么，也许你才能希望用人的知识和理性这样美妙而优雅的东西去与人类的情感与高傲那样的庞然大物进行抗争。 |
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| 87. | He seemed to see a vision of London, vast and ruinous, city of a million dustbins, and mixed up with it was a picture of Mrs Parsons, a woman with lined face and wispy hair, fiddling helplessly with a blocked waste-pipe. |
| 温斯顿仿佛就看到了伦敦城，这庞然大物一片倾圮破败，成百万的垃圾箱塞满了全城； 在这城市的惨景上面，再叠印了帕森斯太太的一张照片——满脸皱纹，头发疏落，徒然挣扎着要鼓捣好那堵塞的水管。 |
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