sounds well, kind of bland or revving in neutral there.What about this?

听上去还可以，趋于平淡或者说转向中性了，那这个呢？

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I think salad needs to have a lot of dressing on it to give it any kind of taste, otherwise it's too bland.

我觉得沙拉上面应该有很多沙拉酱，来丰富它的口味。不然的话，就淡而无味了。

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In other words, you might think of it as a kind of artificial, processed, bland, easily consumable version of fate. I really mean that. One of the funny things about that debt to Finnegans Wake is, Finnegans Wake as a book of puns is unreadable.

也就是说，你可能会把它当做一种人为的，处理过的，乏味的，容易消耗的命运，我正是此意,关于《芬尼根守灵夜》中一个有趣的事是,它作为一本充满双关语的书是不值得一读的。

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