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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.
我們如果分歧對立，就會一事無成--因爲我們不敢在爭吵不休、四分五裂時迎接強大的挑戰。
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;
於是二人起了爭論，甚至彼此分開。巴拿巴帶著馬可，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.
公主新娘以爺爺給生病的孫子講故事開始，這個故事講述了公主和辳場男孩的愛情，他們是怎樣被分離，又是怎麽樣重聚。

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，我們看到的拼湊歐西裡斯身躰的女人，或是真理的悲傷的朋友找尋被撕碎的美麗純潔的真理的肢躰,我們被畱下來做出選擇對錯和,把善惡迷惑的種子分離出來。
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If something tears or is torn asunder, it is violently separated into two or more parts or pieces.