Well, good luck with that. I'll take good care of her. I promise.

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The metropolis, well, it's a place of ambivalence, a place of promise and of threat, of exultation and also of dread.

都市是一个自相矛盾的地方，既有希望，又有威胁，喜悦与恐惧相伴而存在。

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That is, promise that they will do well-- you see this all the time.

例如他们承诺能够获得高额收益率,你时常能听到这种论调

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Well what can you do? Well you can promise miracles, there's very little control over these sorts of things, you can distort the science, you can lie about what you do and nobody will come after you.

那么你会做什么呢,你可以承诺奇迹,这很难给予控制,你可以歪曲科学,你可以说谎,隐瞒你的作为,也没有人会找你麻烦

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