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Lesson 2 1.It is a cliché, as it is to talk of apocalypse and nightmare, but when something is beyond our experience, we reach for the points of reference we have. 说到世界末日和噩梦又是老生常谈，但是当事情超出我们的经验时，我们总是寻找现有的东西作为参照标准。 2. Lest you should ever forget the smallness of being human, the iconic Mount Fuji, instantly recognizable yet somehow different on every viewing, is an extinct volcano. 唯恐你会忘记作为人类的渺小，标志性的富士山，一眼即能认出但不知何故每次观看又呈现出不同景色，就是一座死火山。 3. It surprised me, over the following months that the gas attack seemed to dominate the national media coverage, whereas Kobe, after the initial weeks of horrifying footage, slipped somewhat into the background. 在随后的几个月里，让我吃惊的是毒气攻击似乎占据了国家媒体报道的主要内容，而神户大地震经过了最初几周骇人听闻的连续报道后，就悄然退到了幕后。 4. Rather than immersing ourselves in the language of horror films and the end of the world, when the time is right to try to glimpse this new territory, we might for thought reach for a book by Japans most popular contemporary novelist 我们与其沉浸在恐怖片和世界末日的语言中，不如在合适的时间去了解这一新的领域，我们可以考虑找日本最流行的现代小说家写的书读一读。 5. But we should resist the temptation to imagine panicking hordes buying up all the food and fleeing the capital as the next part of our horror narrative. 但是,我们不应该总想着那些成群结对恐慌的人们把所有的食品抢购一空，逃离首都的事，应当把这些当成是恐怖故事的下一个情节。 1 Bill Clinton was hard to miss in the autumn of 1970. He arrived at Yale Law School looking more like a Viking than a Rhodes Scholar returning from two years at Oxford.. He was tall and handsome somewhere beneath that reddish brown beard and curly mane of hair. He also had a vitality that seemed to shoot out of his pores. 1970年秋天，你想不注意比尔-克林顿也不容易。他来到耶鲁大学法学院时,看上去像一个北欧海盗，而不像一个在牛津大学呆了两年后回国的罗兹奖学金获得者。他身材高大，他那棕红色的胡子和卷曲而浓密的头发使他显得很帅气。他浑身充满了活力。当我第一次在法学院的学生休息室里见到他时，正对着一帮全神贯注的同学滔滔不绝地讲着什么。 2 The way bill tells the story, he couldn’t remember his own name. 在比尔讲述这段事情的版本中 他说他当时都想不起来自己叫什么名字了。 3 To this day, he can astonish me with the connections he weaves between ideas and words and how he makes it all sound like music. 直到现在我还常为他敏捷的思维和恰如其分的用词，以及他如何能够将要表达的思想说得那么动听而感到