Inflation turns life into Through the Looking-Glass: you have to run faster and faster to stay in the same place.

通货膨胀会把生活变成“镜中奇遇记”那样：你只有跑得更快才能待在原处。

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Looking back I don't think the place could have breathed new life into anything at the time, anyway, but what's striking to me is that, for a moment, I was certain that a place had the power to do so.

回过来看这件事，我觉得当时那个地方也不一定能给我一个崭新的生活，但是最让我惊讶的，就是在那一刻，我就是那么确定那个地方就有那么神奇的魔力。

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It is like the forty-five-year-old CZU dentist who despised the nineteen-year-old he once was because of the decision to spend the rest of his life looking into people's mouths and filling teeth.

这正如一名安于现状的、45岁的牙医鄙视19岁时的他，因为当年他做出了一个决定——用自己的余生来检查人们的口腔和补牙。

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Obviously, less than half of them are seeing the so-called green shoots of an economy looking to sprout some life into this economic desert.

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And Monday, just six months into her life, looking up at her dad as he changed her diaper in a minivan, Jonylah was shot multiple times.

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Don Mattingly, Ryne Sandberg, Wally Backman, Tim Wallach, Joey Cora and Ted Simmons have already been identified as attractive candidates by countless ball clubs looking to inject new life and enthusiasm into their organizations.

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