He also studied for a master's in anthropology at the University of Chicago.His thesis was rejected, but his novel "Cat's Cradle" (1963) was accepted instead, almost 25 years late.

他也曾到芝加哥大学攻读人类学硕士学位，但学位论文未获通过，直至最后代以小说《猫的摇篮》(1963)，但那已是25年后的事情了。

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He also studied for a master's in anthropology at the University of Chicago. His thesis was rejected, but his novel "Cat's Cradle" (1963) was accepted instead, almost 25 years late.

他也曾到芝加哥大学攻读人类学硕士学位，但学位论文未获通过，直至最后代以小说《猫的摇篮》(1963)，但那已是25年后的事情了。

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That is because of the complexity of the problem and the lack of information about how the stresses around the cat's cradle of neighbouring faults accumulate in some places and are relieved in others.

原因在于问题的复杂性和信息的缺乏，我们不清楚在纷繁复杂的断层周围，压力是如何在一些地方聚集又在另一些地方释放的。

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It's a staggering aesthetic and intellectual cat's-cradle of lines that connect the various actors in this artistic drama across a span that moves from Russia across various European capitals to the U.S., while also describing the intensity of their networks.

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But beyond simply pursuing al-Qaeda cells in other countries, such as Somalia or Yemen, he will also need to sort out this cat's cradle of failed engagement in the Middle East.

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Most are part of a cat's cradle of interconnecting cracks, which redistribute the energy that builds up in a plate as it is squeezed by its neighbours.

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