他自己陷入了极度的混乱之中。

He got himself into a frightful muddle.

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不过有时候混乱，或者甚至是追其随者喜欢在某种程度上狡猾地称之为“多方参与管理”的方法，也并非极度糟糕：因为大多数时候互联网仍然运转良好。

But sometimes chaos, even one that adherents like to claim somewhat disingenuously is a "multi-stakeholder" approach, is not disastrous: the Internet mostly works.

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英国社会并没有经历大马士革式的转变，相反，它历经了极度混乱、争论、自我剖析和自我欺骗的时期而幸存下来。

English society did not undergo a Damascene conversion. Instead, it survived a period of intense confusion, debate, self-analysis and self-deception.

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