“It is a matter of waft rather than word-choice,” he tells us, with a characteristically musical turn of phrase.

他告诉我们，带着一种表示特性的短语的音乐变化，“那只关乎虚无，而不是单词选择”。

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This gives rise to trends or, in a less charitable turn of phrase, herd mentality.

这就产生了流行趋势，或者以一个不太入耳的词称之——群体心态。

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But there's barely an original turn of phrase in the book's nearly 400 pages.

并且，在本书将近400页得内容中几乎没有一个原创的修辞。

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