There is a sense in which your experience is changed -you are suddenly raised 3-4-5-6 inches higher, your balance is altered, your experience is transformed.

在某种意义上，你的经历发生了变化——你突然高了3，4，5，6英寸，你的平衡改变了，你的经历也改变了。

So there is a sense in which a set of bells in ancient China could also serve as a sort of local weights and measures office, bringing harmony to commerce as well as society.

古代中国的一套铜钟，演奏之余还可以充当当地政府的度量衡工具，使商业与社会和谐。

We are both combatants against crime; only mine is the more lucrative and yours the more dangerous rank, and there is a sense in which both may be made equally honourable to a good man.

我们都是打击犯罪的斗士；只有我的职位更有利可图，而你的职位更危险，从某种意义上说，对于一个好人来说，两者都同样值得尊敬。

So there is a sense in which this book then is an account of how we in the west arrived at a point at which the worst or something approaching it again seemed like a live possibility.

因此，从某种意义上说， 这本书是对我们西方人如何到达一个点， 在这个点上， 最坏的情况或再次接近它的事情似乎是活生生的可能性。