We see time leaking away and begin to wonder, "is this all there is to life?"

看着时光流逝，我们会想知道：这就是生活的全部了吗？

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This will be her own space for when she wants to get away from it all (and me) and have some private alone time.

这就是她自己的一块地方，她什么时候不想见我烦了恼了想自己一个人待会，你知道这就是她的那块地方。

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Yet this would not be the first time that a dominant man, blinded by the habit of abuse and the arrogance of power, had thrown it all away and ruined the people unfortunate enough to cross his path.

不过，类似事件已经屡见不鲜了：一个位高权重的男人，在为所欲为和因权力而产生的狂妄中迷失了自己，最终葬送了大好前程，也毁掉了那些不幸与他相遇的人。

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All this sounds much more complicated than weighing from time to time a piece of metal stowed away in a vault.

ECONOMIST: Weighing a kilogram

We actually kind of were sitting around in NPR's offices in Baghdad and a car bomb went off three blocks away, and this time, whereas two years ago we would have all leapt to our feet, grabbed our notebooks and tape recorders and run to the scene, this time really it was just another daily event.

NPR: Life in Iraq: A Reporter's View