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This is a modern form of 'changes from guest to host', I wonder whether those sycophant and bootlicking government officials realize this.

这是一种现代反客为主术，不知那些宠幸拍马逢迎者的官员们是否想到了这一层。

Tantalus had to suffer the unceasing dread of being crushed by a huge rock which hung suspended above his head, he standing up to the throat in water, possessed of a terrible thirst that he could never quench, and a gnawing hunger that he tried to assuage with the tempting fruits that hung above his head, but withdrew as soon as he reached for them.

另外，类似的惩罚和无休反复：Prometheus被缚在高加索山的崖壁上，肝脏不断长出，不断被鹰啄食。宙斯的儿子Tantalus得罪了众神，在冥界最深的一层中受罚：头顶悬着一块巨石，他时刻担惊受怕；站在深及喉咙的水中，忍受永远无法止息的焦渴；近在咫尺的水果，一伸手就向后退去。

The practice has a cyclic quality; it is self-reinforcing. At first, the practice will allow us to let go of a small amount of defensiveness. That release allows a corresponding amount of openness and tenderheartedness to show itself. This process encourages us to drop even more armor. Slowly, a greater sense of heartfeltness supports the further development of mindfulness.

这种修学有一种『循环性自我强化』的特质：首先，这种修学能让我们放下些许的防卫心；而那种释放能自然流露出无限开放与温和的心灵；而这样的一个过程又能激励我们放下更多的盔甲；於是慢慢地，这种越来越强烈的由衷的热诚就能支撑我们更进一层去发展正念。

IN A small courtroom on the upper floor of the International Criminal Court building in The Hague, closed off to the public gallery behind thick glass, Charles Ghankay Taylor has spent the past month giving testimony in his trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

在海牙国际刑事法庭楼上的一间小屋内，一层厚厚的玻璃将人们阻隔在外，过去的一个月查尔斯？

IN A small courtroom on the upper floor of the International Criminal Court building in The Hague, closed off to the public gallery behind thick glass, Charles Ghankay Taylor has spent the past month giving testimony in his trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Indicted on 11 counts in 2003 by the Special Court for Sierra Leone, a body that combines national and international judicial procedures, the former president of Liberia has been before the court for the past three years.

在海牙国际刑事法庭楼上的一间小屋内，一层厚厚的玻璃将人们阻隔在外，过去的一个月查尔斯·泰勒就是在这里为他被指控的战争罪和反人类罪作着辩解。2003年他被塞拉利昂特别法庭，一个将国内和国际司法程序结合的机构，指控犯有11项罪名，这位利比亚前总统在过去的三年中一直忙碌于法庭上。

He came down with a hundred people in four private cars, and hired a whole floor of the Seelbach Hotel, and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

他和一百位客人乘了四节包车一同南来，在莫尔巴赫饭店租了整个一层楼，在婚礼的前一天他送了她一串估计值三十五万美元的珍珠。

Dusted in winter white, a timeworn cypress looms over Long Lake, some 10,000 feet up in the Min Mountains.

在蒙上了一层白色的冬天，一棵老杇的柏树呈现在岷山中约10000英尺（3048米）高处的长海上。

A minute later, brush on a standard topcoat - not a fast-drying one.

一分钟后涂上最后一层指甲油——可不是快速干的那种哦。

The pollen of this family coats cars with yellow-green dust—though this particular grain landed on an unhatched insect egg.

松树这种熟悉的花粉把汽车涂上一层黄绿色粉未，可是这颗特别的花粉落在了一只未孵化的昆虫卵上。

Each of them was as highly as one floor,even I was unidentifiable to know them at first.

一株株都跟一层楼差不多高，以至我最初竟没有认出它们来。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。