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Divided there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split us asunder.
我们如果分歧对立，就会一事无成--因为我们不敢在争吵不休、四分五裂时迎接强大的挑战。
And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;
于是二人起了争论，甚至彼此分开。巴拿巴带着马可，坐船往塞浦路斯去。
The Princess Bride starts off as a story a grandfather reads to his sick grandson. The story is about the love between a princess and a farm boy, how these two are torn asunder, and then reunited.
公主新娘以爷爷给生病的孙子讲故事开始，这个故事讲述了公主和农场男孩的爱情，他们是怎样被分离，又是怎么样重聚。

Like Isis, whom we saw piecing together the body of Osiris, or like the sad friends of Truth picking up the torn limbs of that beautiful virgin, we are left to cull out and sort asunder the confused seeds of good and evil.
像伊西斯，我们看到的拼凑欧西里斯身体的女人，或是真理的悲伤的朋友找寻被撕碎的美丽纯洁的真理的肢体,我们被留下来做出选择对错和,把善恶迷惑的种子分离出来。
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If something tears or is torn asunder, it is violently separated into two or more parts or pieces.