Others may intuit that their readers are likely to be seeking stuff that confirms how right they were to have perceived the dreadfulness of the world in ways lesser people have not.

还有些作者不假思索地认为人们读了他的书就会发现他比这个世上大部分人都更加准确地认识到这个世界已经是多么可怕。

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But nobody in this country talks about the dreadfulness of living under foreign occupation.

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Newtown, for all its unique dreadfulness, has so far been little different.

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