The lyrics is a collision of the Dickensian and the modern, in which pastoral idyll collides against urban sprawl.

歌词则是狄更斯风格和现代风格的碰撞，充满牧歌般的田园与杂乱无章的城市之间的冲突。

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The roar from this Dickensian forge in the port of Penang is part of a greater reverberation across Asia.

槟榔屿港的这家类似狄更斯式的熔炉里传来的轰鸣声，是整个亚洲更大反响的一部分。

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No Dickensian insights are necessary to appreciate the scale of human intervention in the nitrogen cycle.

在理解人类对氮循环的干扰力度方面，并非是杞人忧天。

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I wanted to go back and leer at my strange Dickensian mother in the hash joint. I tingled all over from head to foot.

这时的我已经有些神志不清，真想回去看看,小饭馆里奇怪的幽灵一般的母亲。

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Clearly, the modern day cubicle is more human than the Dickensian sweatshop, just as Skype is more personal than a telephone.

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While labor activists refer to Longhua as a sweatshop, it hardly has the look of Dickensian squalor the term connotes.

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