The metropolis, well, it's a place of ambivalence, a place of promise and of threat, of exultation and also of dread.

都市是一个自相矛盾的地方，既有希望，又有威胁，喜悦与恐惧相伴而存在。

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Between extremities Man runs his course; A brand, or flaming breath, Comes to destroy All those antinomies Of day and night; The body calls it death, The heart remorse.

在极端和极端之中,人走完了他的历程；,火炮，或火热的呼吸，都会来摧毁、来消灭,白天和黑夜,的自相矛盾；,身躯称它为死亡，心儿称它为悔恨。

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That seems like a very unpalatable combination of views.

这似乎是自相矛盾的。

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And I thought that really hurt the film, because it completely changed the tone sort of a bumpy and abrupt and the end In the scene with his aunt, she's overcome with despair.

我觉得它的出现毁了整部影片，因为它彻底改变了影片的基调,使结局显得唐突又自相矛盾,当镜头转到姨妈时，她正努力克服绝望的心情。

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