"For all the scare tactics out there, what is truly scary, what is truly risky, is if we do nothing,".

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There is in Frost no God, no transcendental source of guidance or consolation, nothing out there in the world but the material conditions of our circumstances.

在弗罗斯特的诗里，没有上帝，没有卓越的指引和安慰，这个世界里什么都没有,除了我们生活环境的物质条件。

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Now we might agree that this's a reasonable enough fantasy of female invulnerability but of course there is nothing in our sad experience with sexual menace that actually bears the theory behind this fantasy out.

现在我们可能会同意,这里有个很合理的幻想，即女性不会受到伤害,但当然，在这个幻想背后，性骚扰的遭受,使没有东西支持这个理论。

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