Any genuinely new trend is a knight's move. I just remind you, in chess the knight doesn't move in a straight line.

所以，任何新趋势都是迂回前进，我只是提醒大家一下，在国际象棋中马是不走直线的。

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Nonetheless, I think it's safe to say you see a gradual decline in the cultural idealization of virginity and a corresponding increase in the valuation of marriage in this new form of chastity that we can think of as married chastity.

然而我认为这么说还是比较保险,你们看到童贞理想化的逐渐下降趋势,而同时婚姻定位的逐渐上升,以这种新形式出现的贞节，我们可以看做是婚姻的贞节。

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But whether that's an aberration, or that it's a new trend is still too early to say right now whether we're a new growing trend or not.

但究竟这是意外现象，还是一股新趋势,要下定论现在还为时尚早,我们还无法确定这是不是新趋势。

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