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标题: 佳句集锦（第三、四、五句求解句出现） [打印本页]

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-3-17 09:00:28 标题: 佳句集锦（第三、四、五句求解句出现）

其实就是在网上做个剪贴版……尽管拿鸡蛋砸我吧。

文章的地址会贴在每帖的第一行。不过基本是从杂志网页截的，所以不保证长久后会不会失效。有兴趣就跟着看吧。

真是~这么漂亮的句子，什么时候自己才能写出来呢。
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有些句子脑袋想破了也不清楚是什么意思，于是决定在一楼作个集合中的集合。凡是我个人不理解，想向各位牛人求解的句子，都会在这层楼存档，并标明出现的楼层层数。如果有比较标准规范的解释出现，会和翻译人的ID一起更新在句子下面，作为对其支持的回报，我也会利用个人资源尽量给提供有效回应的同志做加分奖励。
已经得解的句子存档保留，也有为后人提供便利的希望。祝愿大家都能在这里获得所需，共同进步。

Apr 12, 2007 From #29, thanks to Larry
Back in 2001, when the actress Elizabeth Hurley announced that she was pregnant by Steve Bing, a Hollywood producer, only to have him question whether he was the baby’s father,(是不是应该用his啊？不明白什么意思~) the British tabloids pounced.

Apr 4, 2007 From #22
Their arrival is felt especially in Europe, but the rising star Xian Zhang, 33, was recently named associate conductor of the New York Philharmonic.（求解：What is “but” doing here? Aren’t these two parts of this sentence talking about the same phenomenon that Chinese conductors are bewared gradually in the recent years?）

Apr 4, 2007 From #22
The wellspring is China’s almost limitless pool of young musicians, a mounting number driven by increasing prosperity and nurtured by Chinese society’s desire to compete with the West. (求翻译。这句读着非常别扭啊~)

Mar 26, 2007 From #16
India’s public universities are often woefully underfinanced and strike-prone.
[quote]Mr. Butt to the rescue again!:loveliness:
India's pubilc universities are often traped with financial problems, THUS THE STUFF AND STUDENTS are more tended to strike.

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Mar 19, 2007 From #10
“The rest of us are getting jerked around, and jacked around,”
[quote] from #13 lintelle
about this sentance, I asked my teacher Mr. Butt, he said that it means "we'll never get what we want." we are jerked around, we are treated as jerks; we are jacked around, we are kicked around like football, we are ignored. Overall, it means no one is taking our opinion seriously, we'll never get what we want.

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From #2
Cultural tensions flare when he brings her home to meet his family, and the couple are expected to withhold any expressions of physical affection, according to Indian tradition.
[quote]这句本来求过解，后来因为自己想通了就把求解的字样擦掉了。但有位试着翻译过的同志希望把这句依然列上，应求而为之。
由于印度人的传统观念与美国人的意识格格不入，当他把她带回家与父母会面时，文化冲突显得格外激烈，特别是在这对恋人不得不在两老面前谨言慎行、减少暧昧动作这一点上。

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[ 本帖最后由 lintelle 于 2007-4-12 23:51 编辑 ]

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-3-17 09:01:29 标题: Modernity and Tradition at a Cultural Crossroads -- movie The Namesake's review

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2007/ ... .html?th&emc=th

Her lush palette lends her films a throbbing physicality that invites you to step into the screen and embrace the sensuous here and now.

The longing for roots of these displaced middle-class Indians lends a soulful undertow to a film conspicuously lacking in melodrama.（就是这句给我发这个帖的念头啊~undertow. 这个单词记住了。）

......and the Gogol story becomes a totem in his life, a symbolic tie to his homeland and an omen of good luck.

As the boy grows up, his ambivalence about his temporary name, which he embraces, then rejects (his formal name is Nikhil), becomes a metaphor for his divided cultural identity.

Cultural tensions flare when he brings her home to meet his family, and the couple are expected to withhold any expressions of physical affection, according to Indian tradition.

Avoiding the cliché of pitting disobedient immigrant children in pitched battles against tradition-bound parents from the old country, the film assumes that blood ties are the strongest bonds holding together the social order.

But instead of disappearing, Ashoke and Ashima loom as dignified, stabilizing pillars of tolerance and devotion whom their son and his younger sister, Sonia (Sahira Nair), cherish, even as they reject the old ways.

vocabulary: architecture solidarity undertow loom

[ 本帖最后由 lintelle 于 2007-3-18 13:15 编辑 ]

作者: NETEM 时间: 2007-3-17 09:06:19

作者: coocooper 时间: 2007-3-17 09:21:24

支持一个!

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-3-17 09:35:28 标题: Guidelines for Using a Cellphone Abroad

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/technology/15basics.html?em&ex=1174190400&en=9913a4480bfb4ce1&ei=5087%0A

T-Mobile charged him $5 a minute to roam in Tanzania. (a useful little tip~ :))

To protect against fraud, American cellphones are typically blocked from making calls when used abroad. Before traveling, call your provider and ask to have that restriction removed. (another tip~)

And if you take your American phone overseas, make sure that its battery charger is dual voltage; without one, all the effort to get your phone to work in other countries may go up in smoke the first time you plug it in.

vocabulary: heed roam fraud

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-3-17 12:38:58 标题: China Backs Property Law, Buoying Middle Class

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/1 ... =th&oref=slogin

The measure, which was delayed a year ago amid vocal opposition from resurgent socialist intellectuals and old-line, left-leaning members of the ruling Communist Party, is viewed by its supporters as building a new and more secure legal foundation for private entrepreneurs and the country’s urban middle-class home and car owners.

Despite a high level of interest among intellectuals and businessmen and the unexpected decision last year to withdraw the measure from the legislative agenda at the last minute, neither leader has spoken about the matter publicly.

Yet the conspicuous silence of Mr. Hu and Mr. Wen appears to be a form of tribute to the influence of current and former officials and leading scholars who argue that China’s economic policies have fueled corruption and enriched the elite at the expense of the poor and the environment.

vocabulary: buoy explicit pliant conspicuous compromise consensus petition assertion proponent

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-3-18 00:35:17 标题: Rising Trouble With Mortgages Clouds Dream of Owning Home

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/1 ... =th&oref=slogin

That may sound at odds with a bedrock notion of society promoted by presidents for decades.

And their payments will get higher, Mr. Zandi estimates, as low teaser rates used to lure them into the market adjust upward after a few years.

“I wish people could own more homes,” he said in an interview yesterday. “But I also wish I could eat and not gain weight.” (nice metaphor~)

vocabulary: bedrock refinance surge lure asset problematic

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-3-18 00:51:57 标题: New Jersey Men Die in Dive to Explore Ship Off Keys

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/17/us/17divers.html?th&emc=th

the three men, all advanced certified divers, died trying what is known as a “penetration dive,” a risky exploration into the dark passages and compartments of a sunken vessel,

Even the most experienced diver can become disoriented trying to explore confined spaces like the inside of a ship,

vocabulary: certify maze surface(v.) ambient

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-3-19 13:25:44 标题: (Sunday Book Review: 'Then We Came to the End') Pink Slip Blues

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/1 ... =bu&oref=slogin

It is a brave author who embeds the rationale for writing his novel into the novel itself. (I like the vocabulary in this sentense, and I know a chinese author who is also brave~:o )

It is set at the turn of the current century, when the implosion of the dot-com economy is claiming collateral victims down the fluorescent-paneled halls of a Chicago advertising firm.

The layoffs come piecemeal, without warning and — in keeping with good, brutal, heinie-covering legal practice — with no rationale as to why any person was let go.

The assignment becomes more fraught, and suspicious, when a rumor begins to circulate that Lynn Mason, the employees’ reserved, arch supervisor, has breast cancer herself.

And the prophylactic amnesia that separates time on the clock from the set of waking hours we call “our lives”: “Half the time we couldn’t remember three hours ago. Our memory in that place was not unlike that of goldfish. Goldfish who took a trip every night in a small clear bag of water and then returned in the morning to their bowl.”

Even after moving on and rebuilding their lives, the employees who exit Ferris’s unnamed firm come to miss it, the drudgery, the infuriations, the hours spent with “this person or that who rankled and bugged and offended angels in heaven.”

vocabulary: embed rationale

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-3-20 08:34:10 标题: Uproar Over Memphis Power Broker’s Unpaid Bills

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/us/19memphis.html?th&emc=th

Month after month, Memphis Light, Gas and Water allowed City Councilman Edmund Ford to forgo paying thousands of dollars in overdue bills without having his power cut.

Voters here indulge peccadilloes among their politicians, like the occasional indictment or child born out of wedlock.

“The rest of us are getting jerked around, and jacked around,”(求翻译)

The paper trail shows officials negotiating, cajoling and pleading with, and ultimately excusing Mr. Ford,

vocabulary: forgo indulge plead preferential unseat echo(v.)

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-3-21 01:55:21 标题: Russia Gives Iran Ultimatum on Enrichment

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/2 ... =th&oref=slogin

The ultimatum was delivered in Moscow last week by Igor S. Ivanov, the secretary of the Russian National Security Council, to Ali Hosseini Tash, Iran’s deputy chief nuclear negotiator, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because a confidential diplomatic exchange between two governments was involved. (interesting political trick~)

But clearly the Russians and the Iranians are getting on each other’s nerves. (get on one's nerves, to irritate, annoy, or provoke one)

In a flurry of public comments in the past month,

vocabulary: ultimatum envision flurry(v. flurr)

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-3-22 07:34:09 标题: Inside Japan’s Puzzle Palace

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/2 ... .html?th&emc=th
Few Americans had ever thought of Japan as a source for puzzles until a little more than two years ago, when sudoku suddenly took the nation by storm, flooding airport gift shops, and even rivaling crosswords in popularity.

“These puzzles can spread across countries,” Mr. Gould said, “because there are no restrictions of language or culture to block them.”

Vocabulary: self-proclaimed wellspring oversight catchy

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-3-23 05:19:26 标题: 回复 #10 lintelle 的帖子

“The rest of us are getting jerked around, and jacked around,”

about this sentance, I asked my teacher Mr. Butt (I just found out that he has a PhD~:) ), he said that it means "we'll never get what we want." we are jerked around, we are treated as jerks; we are jacked around, we are kicked around like football, we are ignored. Overall, it means no one is taking our opinion seriously, we'll never get what we want.

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-3-23 07:32:33 标题: China Scrambles for Stability as Its Workers Age

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/2 ... =th&oref=slogin
While second careers are common in the West and are often embraced as a chance to satisfy long-held ambitions, for huge numbers of Chinese city dwellers like Mrs. Chen, a widow, eking out another decade or two of paid work is more a matter of survival. (eking out another decade or two of paid work, this sentence sounds really funny. Need to get used to it~)

In this sense, Mrs. Chen is anything but alone. (I think we can replace anything with everything here. Can anyone give me a confirmed answer about this opinion?)

By midcentury, according to United Nations projections, roughly 430 million people — about a third of the population — will be retirees. (This sentence is not graceful, the grammar use is not complicated, but oh-my-god! – Yep~ this is China~)

Most troubling to financial experts, the government has used payroll taxes paid by the current generation of workers, who in theory are paying into their individual retirement accounts, to pay pensions for the previous generation. :funk:

Vocabulary: eke(+out) China’ s one-child policy= population control policy(计划生育 in case some of you are wondering~) crisis loom(v.)

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-3-26 06:26:48 标题: Diamonds Move From Blood to Sweat and Tears

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/2 ... .html?th&emc=th
Diamond mining in Sierra Leone is no longer the bloody affair made infamous by the nation’s decade-long civil war, in which diamonds played a starring role.

By law that person must be Sierra Leonean, but in practice the licensees are often fronts for foreign backers or migrants from the Middle East or other West African countries.

Vocabulary: grim front(v.)

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-3-27 09:34:22 标题: India Attracts Universities From the U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/2 ... .html?th&emc=th
and a scarcity of higher education opportunities is frequently cited as a potential hurdle to economic progress.

It also reflects the need for India to close its gaping demand for higher education.

India’s public universities are often woefully underfinanced and strike-prone.（求解）

They addressed them politely with a series of “yes, sirs.”

Vocabulary: scarcity cite >test the water< accredited appetite envision subsidize

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-3-29 07:05:11 标题: Teenager Casts Light on a Shadowy Game

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/us/28risk.html?th&emc=th
he told the rapt audience, aiming to achieve a surging rush as his brain was starved and then replenished with blood just before the point of unconsciousness.

Suffocation, which includes hanging, overtook gunshot in 1997 as the No. 1 way 10- to 19- year olds take their own lives, according to the centers.

Conventional wisdom said adolescents often flirted with the edges of danger because they felt invulnerable.

Vocabulary: overtake dismiss

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-4-1 01:14:44 标题: Pet Food Contained Chemical Found in Plastic, F.D.A. Says

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/3 ... =th&oref=slogin
She said the most important thing was for owners to keep a close watch on pets for the first signs of renal failure, which include decreased appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, lethargy and increased thirst.

Vocabulary: vigilant renal appetite diarrhea lethargy

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-4-1 02:55:18 标题: Too Busy to Notice You’re Too Busy

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/3 ... .html?th&emc=th
Putting aside the possibility that they are avoiding me, some are so on the go that they barely have time to tell me they do not have time to talk.

I sometimes feel as if I am the odd one out.

Although those who are overworked and overwhelmed complain ceaselessly, it is often with an undertone of boastfulness;

Many people I know, who might be able to enjoy some downtime because their children are in school and they do not have paying jobs, pile errands on top of volunteering on top of working out on top of, well, you name it.:mad

“You can feel like a tin can surrounded by a circle of a hundred powerful magnets,” he writes. “Many people are excessively busy because they allow themselves to respond to every magnet: tracking too much data, processing too much information, answering to too many people, taking on too many tasks — all in the sense that this is the way they must live in order to keep up and stay in control. But it’s the magnets that have the control.”

One way to wrestle back control is to take a hard look at our priorities,

she made the decision to bring work home so she wouldn’t race to her office, then rush to the airport, then hightail it back to her job.

Vocabulary: >on the go< undertone downtime wrestle

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作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-4-2 03:32:51 标题: Can the Star Maker Make Himself a Star?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/0 ... =th&oref=slogin
He tried to become a music mogul by starting his own label, Beat Club, which didn’t take off.

It’s no exaggeration to compare him to James Brown, another rhythm fanatic who found new possibilities in old grooves.

“I’m a real producer and you just the piano man,” Timbaland sneers, and those two words, “real producer,” suggest a whole constellation of claims and paradoxes.

Throughout, the common lyrical theme was frustration: Timbaland complained that he wasn’t being given his due.

Vocabulary: stardom

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-4-2 11:38:18 标题: Analysis of Major Characters: Of Mice and Men

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/micemen/canalysis.html
By shooting Lennie, George spares his friend the merciless death that would be delivered by Curley’s lynch mob, but he also puts to rest his own dream of a perfect, fraternal world.

Of course, life on the ranch—especially Candy’s dog, once an impressive sheep herder but now toothless, foul-smelling, and brittle with age—supports Candy’s fears.

In such a world, Candy’s dog serves as a harsh reminder of the fate that awaits anyone who outlives his usefulness.

He deems the few acres of land they describe worthy of his hard-earned life’s savings, which testifies to his desperate need to believe in a world kinder than the one in which he lives.

However, it also reinforces the novel’s grim worldview.

Vocabulary: gruff exterior >put to rest<wearisome

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-4-5 08:59:47 标题: Increasingly in the West, the Players Are From the East

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/0 ... .html?th&emc=th
With stunning swiftness China’s surging ranks of classical musicians have found a home in Western concert halls, conservatories and opera houses, jolting a musical tradition born in the courts and churches of Europe.

The phenomenon, which has been building for at least a decade, has gathered steam in the last few years, injecting new vitality into the American classical music scene after historic influxes of …

But many Western musicians and educators interviewed cited similar qualities in Chinese virtuosos: passion and refinement, expressiveness and brilliance.

Along with Lang Lang and another highly praised Chinese pianist, Yundi Li, also 24, a new crop of stars in their teens or barely out of them are on the way up.

Chinese musicians have now joined them in force and are winning high-profile positions.

Their arrival is felt especially in Europe, but the rising star Xian Zhang, 33, was recently named associate conductor of the New York Philharmonic.（求解：What is “but” doing here? Aren’t these two parts of this sentence talking about the same phenomenon that Chinese conductors are bewared gradually in the recent years?）

It is in the elite Western conservatories that the presence of Chinese is perhaps most significant for the future.

The wellspring is China’s almost limitless pool of young musicians, a mounting number driven by increasing prosperity and nurtured by Chinese society’s desire to compete with the West. (求翻译。这句读着非常别扭啊~)

“One goes where the talent is,”

“There’s bound to be friction.”

But the will to overcome such difficulties among many families of musical Chinese children points at what the future may hold for classical music.

Vocabulary: jolt vitality cite >in force< >elite conservatory< bonanza friction tremendous

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-4-8 10:09:17 标题: Chlorine Gas Attack by Truck Bomber Kills Up to 30 in Iraq

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/0 ... =th&oref=slogin
It was at least the sixth chlorine bomb detonated in Anbar Province since late January and the most lethal, though it appears that most victims were killed by the explosion rather than the chlorine.

when children off from school usually play in the street and adults run errands and visit before going to the mosque at midday.

Vocabulary: lethal >set off<

作者: moondy74178945 时间: 2007-4-8 10:20:58

好题啊！尽力解答，先占个位置，回来找朋友帮你看看。:) 希望楼主时时更新，大家多多交流嘛！
India’s public universities are often woefully underfinanced and strike-prone.（求解）
遗憾的是，印度的公立大学时常资金短缺，并且有员工罢工的倾向。（自己翻译的.....）
the wellspring is China`s almost limitless pool of young musicians, a mounting number driven by increasing prosperity and nurtured by Chinese society`s desire to compete with the west.
wellspring is mean reason or origin, i think origin better. a pool of 备用人员 mounting number 底数或者基数
群众基础在中国想要与西方国家竞争的教育环境下迅速成长起来，这就是中国有近乎无穷的年轻音乐家后备力量的起因。 i already do my best....it is really tough to translate. hopefully, it can help u to figure out.

[ 本帖最后由 moondy74178945 于 2007-4-9 01:14 编辑 ]

作者: moondy74178945 时间: 2007-4-9 23:35:25

???没人顶吗？晕，不能让好贴沉下去啊。
大家可以把难句，好句，都放在这里求解或共享啊！
不要一个一个地开新帖了，对大家都有好处~:)

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-4-11 08:00:20 标题: Art’s Audiences Become Artworks Themselves

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/1 ... .html?th&emc=th
This current show forms a coda to one lately at the Prado, where Mr. Struth insinuated a dozen or more, some nearly life-size, photographs among the paintings and sculptures.:(

It took some gall and guile.:mad

Come upon irregularly and unexpectedly, his pictures punctuated galleries of nearly unrelenting greatness.

Mr. Struth’s work partly entails obscuring (and thereby making us focus more on) these distinctions among the spaces in the paintings he photographs, the ones occupied by people looking at those paintings, and the ones we occupy, looking at the photographs.:confused:

Mr. Struth interjected a picture of an audience in Tokyo, seen in shadowy silhouette, admiring Delacroix’s “Liberty Leading the People,” on loan from the Louvre, inside its huge, antiseptic-white glass box. (On loan has an original meaning of “debit and credit”, it here means imitating, simulating.)

The expression … , is eternal. (Their looks are at once hopeful and wary.):funk:

And we, in turn, scour the scenes as we do the art: here is the smiling tour guide, leaning into a goggle-eyed scrum of visitors who lean oh so slightly away from the Velázquez, as if intimidated by its reputation.

“The moments of the past do not remain still,” as Proust wrote. “They retain in our memory the motion which drew them toward the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.”:)

Vocabulary: coda insinuate glimpse gulf >on loan< wary

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-4-12 08:04:28 标题: The Perfect Bacon Sandwich Decoded: Crisp and Crunchy

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/1 ... =th&oref=slogin
Should it be slithery or scrunchy, glutinous or grilled?

And, no, it is not April 1.

Vocabulary:

作者: moondy74178945 时间: 2007-4-13 12:03:57 标题: Hollywood Evidence Raises Questions

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/movies/12bing.html?ref=movies

LOS ANGELES, April 11 — Back in 2001, when the actress Elizabeth Hurley announced that she was pregnant by Steve Bing, a Hollywood producer, only to have him question whether he was the baby’s father,(是不是应该用his啊？不明白什么意思~) the British tabloids pounced. They branded him “Bing Laden,” and The Daily Mail of London reported that he and his Los Angeles lawyer had hired the private eye Anthony Pellicano to dig up dirt to destroy Ms. Hurley’s reputation.

vocabulary: only to 没想到，竟然会 tabloids 小报 brand 打上烙印（这里是动词） pounce 突袭（我电子字典翻译的，但是这里应该是抓住不放大肆宣传的意思） reputation(这个不算新词了，只是想告诉大家这个词在口语中，可以理解为对异性的吸引力或在学校的地位)

[ 本帖最后由 lintelle 于 2007-4-12 23:27 编辑 ]

作者: lintelle 时间: 2007-4-13 12:48:15

dirt有八卦的意思，dig up dirt就是挖花边新闻。Friends里也出现过dirt的这种用法。
第一句不像该用his，但我也弄不清这里怎么用的。
明天去帮你问老师，顺便三四求解句也一起解决了好了。
new york times 的艺术类文章语言最麻烦，准备托福考试期间不推荐阅读。
找单词时可以尽量注意找可以用在考试中的单词，每天少找几个，做成卡片，摘下来了，就要记住。阅读是提高使用单词语感的手法，但如果不加强下硬功夫的力道，是很难见成效的。祝楼上在t版既玩也学，玩得开心。:)

作者: yangguang132 时间: 2007-4-13 12:52:41

Apr 4, 2007 From #22
The wellspring is China’s almost limitless pool of young musicians, a mounting number driven by increasing prosperity and nurtured by Chinese society’s desire to compete with the West. (求翻译。这句读着非常别扭啊~)

i will try it.we can understand it,but it's difficult to express it in chinese.
在中国局限的小圈子里，受到日渐的繁荣和中国社会与西方竞争的愿望的鞭策，一群年轻音乐家们是（未来的）希望。:handshake

作者: baolongbigbig 时间: 2007-4-26 07:56:42

谢谢了!

作者: birdatgt 时间: 2007-6-22 20:06:49

thanks!!

作者: veronica12321 时间: 2007-7-21 16:29:34

:loveliness:

作者: cyinterfan 时间: 2007-8-2 19:43:03

顶

作者: skyluliang 时间: 2007-8-6 13:06:39

:)

作者: scheize 时间: 2007-8-6 18:03:46

頂一個~~~

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