You're supposed to shuck off your old self, lose track of the news back home and try on an utterly foreign way of life.

可以彻底地放松自己，抛开在家乡发生的所有的事情，尝试全新的、异国的生活方式。

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So enjoy these last two weeks of the great sequester debate as alternative proposals get more and more preposterous, dire warnings grow more shrill, old bull Republicans shuck and jive looking for a rock to hide under, and Tea Partiers hunker down for a long siege.

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