It wasn't long before the strain began to tell on our relationship.

很快，这种极度的紧张就开始对我们的关系产生严重影响。

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The rope broke under the strain.

绳子给拉断了。

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The wall collapsed under the strain.

墙壁因承受不了重压而坍塌了。

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Port-au-Prince was overcrowded before the earthquake. The mass exodus from the capital presented an opportunity to relieve the strain.

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Now, you don't have to buy that and individuals undoubtedly found the strain too much from time to time, but what's interesting, is rather the ideal, the claim, the theory.

你不必非得接受这些理论,况且现代社会常充斥着个人主义倾向,但是那些理想,主张和理论却更意味深长

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So even though he's very closely connected to the legacy of avant-garde modernism, he's also connected to a social realist strain, the naturalist strain.

虽然怀特,与前卫现代主义的传承，有千丝万缕的关联，但他仍具有现实主义。

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But some of those organizations are falling apart under the strain of lengthy deployments.

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And at least 8 of the 25 patients carrying the strain reported contact with armadillos.

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Even at this high altitude, the horses are physically able to handle the strain.

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